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Family : Moraceae
Mt Drombaderry to the Torres Strait Islands.
A very large buttressed tree attaining a height in rainforest of up to 50m with a stem diameter of 300cm which often completely encloses the original host tree.
The fruit is yellow turning orange.
Varieties are recognized. All material examined for N.S.W. is var. obliqua. However, var. petiolaris (Benth.) Corner has been reported for N.S.W. It differs in having larger fruits (10–15 mm diam.), on stalks 2.5–10 mm long and petioles to 4 cm long.
Photo taken in Sydney Botanic Gardens
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1st Day Tour in Cambodia : Tha Prohm Complex ~ Siem Reap
Ta Phrom Temple, One of the most romantic temples of Angkor's site, where the nature resumed its rights and disrupted the work of the men. A magic place which was built in 1186, this convent Buddhist was the most gigantic of Angkor's site. The Conservation of Angkor saved the main monuments, but didn't clean' it. All the trees and the roots which had invaded and left the rights for the jungle, such as found him by the first discoverers. Roots look like snakes which disrupt and waste statues and walls, and huge trees beat the heads of stuppas. A forest which doesn't want to let escape his gods and which destroys them or protects them.... A place loaded with emotion and poetry for the meditation.
12000 persons lived in the surrounding wall of the " Convent of King " 8 centuries previously, and his construction was ended at the beginning of the 13th century.
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The Birthing Tree, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee is said to be named for the children born under the shade of its branches to parents who were early settlers to the area arriving by wagon train.
The white oak is 81 feet tall and the crown spreads 130 feet.
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Brendan and Aidan spent several days with us hiking in the Sierras. Calaveras Big Trees State Park north east of Arnold is aptly named because of the giant trees, many 250-300 ft high and 25-30 ft in diameter. These trees are also quite ancient, 2000-3000 years in age. Throughout the park one finds remains of trees felled by some ancient fire or lightning which burnt the inside of the tree, leaving them hollow and and providing charcoal lined tunnels for little boys to explore.
These Eucalyptus regnans trees at Mount Field Tall Tree Walk are around 60-70m tall, however they do grow to be the tallest flowering trees in the world. However the current tallest tree is only a fraction over 100 metres high placing it behind a yellow meranti (Shorea faguetiana) tree in Borneo that was measured in 2018 at 100.8m high.
Prior to logging SE Australia's tall forests, some Eucalypt trees attained heights up to 114 metres (374 ft) the tallest verified height measurement (however is was measured after the tree was felled!).
The conifer, Coast Redwood in the USA attains the greatest historical and current tree heights. Douglas fir also attain heights similar to current Eucalypt regnans trees.
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Best of All Lookout, Springbrook National Park, SE Queensland
Family : Nothofagaceae
Lophozonia moorei is a dominant species in cool-temperate rainforest up to 1550 m altitude from Barrington Tops to the McPherson Ranges and into Lamington and Springbrook National Parks in Queensland.
Commonly known as Antarctic Beech the species is an important Gondwanan relict of the rainforests of the southern hemisphere with many trees thought to be several thousand years old.
Lophozonia moorei occurs in wet, fire-free areas at high altitude in eastern Australia and is likely to be severely impacted by climate change.
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What is the tallest tree in New South Wales?
You can read a lot of incorrect information on this subject. No-one really knows for sure. It's possibly this species of tree, or maybe even this individual. Others say (with justification) that it's an 82 metre tall Eucalyptus nobilis.
This tree is immense, of gigantic size, but I couldn't see the top to measure it.
Tallowwood often grow on rainforest margins, in good soils in high rainfall areas. Because the rainforest trees obscure a view of the top part of the tree, conventional measurement is impossible. The only way is to either chop it down or for the tree to be climbed.
The talk is that this tree is 70 metres or so in height, that's plausible.
Estimated height, anywhere between 55 and 85 metres tall.
A view of the Woodford Tree, when climbing up one of the many sandstone "mini cliffs" this afternoon.
This giant tree appears out of the fog and mist, a huge pale trunk against the dark green of the rainforest.
Today I walked to the Woodford Tree, 15 years after last being there. It is huge, a staggering sight, a giant. In 1978 it was measured at 78 metres tall. Bigger than "The Grandis". Today I measured the diameter at breast height, 2.5 metres. Re-measured in 2010 by Dr. Dean Nicolle at 71 metres. The tree has been climbed and measured with a drop rope at 69 metres tall.
This tree is surrounded by other species. Rainforest on one side, and turpentine/angophora above on the ridge. They're mostly 25 metres tall or less. There are no other Eucalyptus deanei to be seen when near the big tree. Not senescent, a healthy tree.
It's an isolated giant on the edge of a rainforest. Some of the trees in the rainforest below are quite large. Mostly Coachwood and Common Sassafras. Also tall nearby is Acacia elata, a common tree in moist areas in the Blue Mountains.
Joe Maiden said this about his railway friend and engineer "I name it in honour of my old friend Henry Deane, M.A., M. Inst. C.E., Engineer-in-Chief for Railway Construction of this State, my coadjutor in much work on the genus published in these Proceedings and whose stimulus and counsel in botanical work I have enjoyed for twenty years. He first drew my attention to this tree in March, 1888, at The Valley, Blue Mountains, and I have had it under observation ever since."
A bridal shoot was in progress during my visit to the Singapore Botanical Gardens. Guess this place and the Fullerton hotel at night are a popular destination amongst wedding photographers. Love the perspective of this shot, it really shows the scale of the tree in the foreground.
Just how small human are when compare to the nature's size. Yet, I think a shot like this highlights the life of people. Wouldn't it be good to grow strong and tall, old and sweet together with your loved one?
Symbolic yet real.
Taken by Jimmy Cheng
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Lake Barrine is famous for these Kauri Pines. Tourists come to see them. The Atherton Tablelands once had lots of these rainforest trees and so did the coastal uplands, but only a few remain today. Two giant ones on the top of the Gillies Highway leading to the Tablelands were brought down by Cyclone Larry with winds of around 280 km/hour. The cyclone caused a lot of destruction in the Barrine area too but spared these two trees. Here is something about Kauri Pines, and these two in particular:-
The best known botanical feature of Lake Barrine is the twin Rough Barked Kauri Pines (Agathis Microstachya). These giant forest emergents are estimated to be about 1,000 years old and are considered one of the earliest known species of rainforest tree. Towering above the rainforest canopy, they have achieved a height of 50 metres and have a trunk diameter of 2.7m (9 feet). Kauris, common in some rainforest types, are descendants of species that dominated Tableland forests for thousands of years.
The Bull Kauri species is the largest of all the Kauri’s on record and it is a pine even though it does not have a needle leaf. ‘Kauri Pine’ is the common name derived from the Maori name of the related New Zealand Kauri species (Agathis Australis).
An imposing sight, around 50 metres tall. Already a gigantic tree. It may form another "curtain" of descending roots like the Curtain Fig up near Cairns. Though, that's a different species of fig (Ficus virens).
"The last big stand". This tree is around 55 metres tall. There's eleven of them here.
The laser returned a figure of 49 metres to a point above in the canopy. Almost certainly not the highest point of the tree. Estimated height of the tree; 50 to 60 metres tall.
This is the famous "last big stand of Red Cedar". These millenial giants were hunted down for logging in the 20th & 19th century. Apparently they got them all, apart from this grove.
Bill Haydon ran a logging company up north. He had heard of this stand in Washpool, and decided to search for it. The 74 year old set out in 1965, alone in the bush. But that was the last anyone heard of him.
Luckily for this rainforest, these giant mahoganies still stand. What a privilege it was to be there yesterday.
There's a record of a 55 metre red cedar near Wollongong. I've seen the tree, it's wonderful and magnificent. However, the figure of 55 seems spurious at worst, and inaccurate at best. These trees at Washpool are bigger and taller.
Rainforest margins in the north of the state often feature very large trees in the myrtle family.
In this case the Brush Box on the right. Typically these are around 40 to 52 metres in height.
To the left of shot is the Tallowwood (Eucalyptus microcorys). It is speculated this tree is around 70 metres tall. That is possible though unproven. The altitude above sea level here is 685 metres.
In the rainforest margins, the rainforest canopy is reduced to a height of 15 to 20 metres. The Tallowwood is possibly the tallest tree species in the state of New South Wales. Though it is hard to be sure, as conventional measurement is impossible due to the thick canopy.
Nearby this site, we found an even larger Tallowwood, which seemed larger than those at Marowin Brook, and possibly the tallest tree in the state.
The best way to measure these rainforest margin giants, is to climb the tree itself, and drop a weighted line.
Despite Australia's mostly arid climate, there are remarkable areas of forests in the moister parts of the country. Many of them are threatened by logging and fires.
Better known areas are the south western part of the state of Western Australia with the remarkable Karri and Jarrah forests. The state of Tasmania has exceptional rainforest and tall eucalyptus forest, as does nearby Victoria. The scenic rim on the border of Queensland and New South Wales is one of the finest rainforest areas, as is the wet tropics in far north eastern Queensland.
Of equal value is this area, on the ranges in the mid north coast of New South Wales. An immense variety of different rainforest types with accompanying eucalyptus forest, much of it on the UNESCO World Heritage. Cool temperate rainforest, warm termperate rainforests, depauperate rainforests and sub tropical rainforests. I felt most fortunate to visit Cockerawombeeba Creek last week for the first time. One of the oustanding sites in this area.
Schizomeria ovata. Impossible to measure the tree as the top was not visible.
However, the laser returned "36 metres" tall to one of the upper branches. Estimated height 38 to 45 metres. Cobcroft Rest Area.
According to the camera, the altitude here is 996 metres above sea level. Location: -31/13/46.6 & 152/9/56.5 (Degrees Minutes Seconds format).
Small tree on the lower left is Orites excelsus.
What is this tree, (if Schizomeria ovata is incorrect?) Doryphora sassafras, Cryptocarya foveolata, Ceratopetalum apetalum, Nothofagus moorei and Sloanea woollsii) can also grow to 40 metres tall. They are all growing nearby. But the bark of this tree looks like Schizomeria, it is a very tall tree. Any other suggestions?
The form of the tree, and bark, as well as the fluted base of the tree resembles the White Beech (Gmelina), however, I don't think this species is listed here in this rainforest. Also, there is always fallen White Beech leaves under the tree, these were absent here at Cobcroft. The small leaves of the laurel (Cryptocarya foveolata) were also absent under this tree. But identification is unclear at this stage.
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On May 27 2006, while on a Business Trip to Jupiter, Florida, I visited the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. Out in back of the Flagler Kenan Pavilion, I found this Tree with Tangled Roots.
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Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.
Family : Myrtaceae
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This tree is a real monster-there are several others of almost equivalent size in SBG's.
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Just a few miles from Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast is a sign for the Largest Sitka Spruce Tree in the United States. If you ever drive there, definitely stop as it's less than 30 seconds off the road and is amazingly HUGE.
56 feet around, 206 feet tall, over 750 years old
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Ficus virens is an exceptionally large fig with 2 varieties.
Ficus virens var. sublanceolata, seen in this image taken in the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney surrounded by Clivia miniata plants, is a massive strangler fig which grows on rocky outcrops and in lowland subtropical rainforest north from the Clarence River, NSW.
The best known example is the Temple Fig, located at Eungella, just west of Murwillumbah in the Tweed Valley, NSW.
The other variety is Ficus virens var. virens, a large banyan from northern Australia exemplified by the the enormous Cathedral and Curtain Fig Trees located in tropical rainforest on the Atherton Tableland just west of Cairns.
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After a video shoot in Los Angeles, my wife and I took a side trip to the Sequoia National Park to see the largest trees in the world. The trunks of these trees are as wide as 40 feet, they stand as high as 300 feet tall, and many are up to 3,000 years old. We visited in early April, and there was still 8 to 20 feet of snow on the ground. We felt like ants.
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Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Visalia, California, in the United States of America. It was established on September 25th, 1890. The park spans 404,051 acres (1,635 km2). Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m), the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421 m) above sea level. The park is south of and contiguous with Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service together.
The park is famous for its Giant Sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, the largest tree on Earth. The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five out of the ten largest trees in the world, in terms of wood volume. The Giant Forest is connected by the park's Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Park's General Grant Grove, home to the General Grant tree among other sequoias. The park's Giant Sequoia forests are part of 202,430 acres (81,921 ha) of old-growth forests shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Indeed, the parks preserve a landscape that still resembles the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro-American settlement.
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(Zoom in on this one) Lake Barrine is famous for these Kauri Pines. Tourists come to see them. The Atherton Tablelands once had lots of these rainforest trees and so did the coastal uplands, but only a few remain today. Two giant ones on the top of the Gillies Highway leading to the Tablelands were brought down by Cyclone Larry with winds of around 280 km/hour. The cyclone caused a lot of destruction in the Barrine area too but spared these two trees. Here is something about Kauri Pines, and these two in particular:-
The best known botanical feature of Lake Barrine is the twin Rough Barked Kauri Pines (Agathis Microstachya). These giant forest emergents are estimated to be about 1,000 years old and are considered one of the earliest known species of rainforest tree. Towering above the rainforest canopy, they have achieved a height of 50 metres and have a trunk diameter of 2.7m (9 feet). Kauris, common in some rainforest types, are descendants of species that dominated Tableland forests for thousands of years.
The Bull Kauri species is the largest of all the Kauri’s on record and it is a pine even though it does not have a needle leaf. ‘Kauri Pine’ is the common name derived from the Maori name of the related New Zealand Kauri species (Agathis Australis).
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Sitka Spruce Giant– Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis), Olympic National Park, WA. From the book, TreeGirl: Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature. www.treegirl.org