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"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.
Two students of an islamic school stay near the biggest and oldest tree in Ethiopia. This sacred tree (Podocarpus falcatus, yellowwood) is 12,5m in circumference and 63m in height. It is supposed to be more than 700 years old.
One of Australia's largest rainforest trees may be seen in the mid north coast region of New South Wales.
The laser returned a figure of 66.1 metres. (64.4 metres on the screen, 1.7 metres added for the height above the ground at eye level). The tree was measured on the other side of the Wilson River, and the base of the tree was somewhat raised above the river bank.
So the actual figure would be less than this number, by a metre or three. 63 metres tall is a quotable figure for this tree.
I'm dubious of published heights of Australian trees. The scientists are too conservative. And the commercial and tourist publications exaggerate.
These figs are immense; they are giants, leviathans, colossal in the height and breadth. There's one nearly as tall, up at Sheepstation Creek in the Border Ranges.
Scientific publications say this tree may reach 30 metres. Don't you believe it!
Twenty or so years ago I wrote a poem about a giant. In mythology, giants are usually good natured creatures who live a happy solitary life. Often in their cave, and don't use their strength for anything but good.
However, in this case. The giant was being annoyed by a group of goblins. Who made noises, lit fires and were a nuisance.
I read this poem aloud to an audience of literary people. Gave the poem a similar preview, saying the giant is easy going as rule.
When reading the poem I made sure I did so very slowly. Usually I gabble and speak at an intensely quick rate. Which is mostly unintelligible for the average listener.
So, I read it very slowly. There were plenty of pauses, even though it is a short poem.
At the end, the poem got a lot of applause, I was shocked. A couple of people approached me after the reading, saying how horrible it was, and how bloody and disgusting it was. (Saying so in a complimentary way of course).
I had no expectation that it would evoke this reaction.
Anyway, the tree in the photo is a giant. The poem is about a giant. Here it is:
GIANT
they light their fires near my cave
drum and chanting
throwing rocks my way
too small to bother me
until today
I slept and a goblin came near
screaming in my ear
breaking a bad dream
I knocked it with a backhand flip
half my height
but what a bizarre fight!
it kicked and squirmed
a howling shriek
a turmoil of strength
before I ripped off an arm
the stink of black blood
the festering insides
I twisted the head off
hurled it to its mates
so now they know to let me be
don't mess with me
'cause I'm a Giant
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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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This tree is a real monster-there are several others of almost equivalent size in SBG's.
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Compare us to the Giant. Redwood National Park in California
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Heart of a giant sequoia in Sequoia Park, CA.
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A view of the Silver Garden, the Dragonfly Lake and the Flower Dome at Garden by the Bay, Singapore.
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A view of the Silver Garden and the Flower Dome at Garden by the Bay, Singapore.
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. The tree was 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 are large. 30 metres tall or thereabouts. Mostly Coachwood and Common Sassafras. Also tall nearby is Acacia elata, a common tree in moist areas in the Blue Mountains.
Named by Maiden after his friend. Joseph 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."
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Frank (yes, he's there) and a massive cottonwood tree on the grounds of the Daly Mansion in Hamilton, Montana.
Mr. Daly was a Montana copper baron. Members of the super-rich of their day, his family lived on a truly baronial scale from the 1870s to well into the 20th century.
Mrs. Daily, who'd established a comfy perch for herself in New York society, didn't retreat into seclusion after her husband's death.
No, Mrs. D built a 25,000 square foot summer home with 25 bedrooms in her late husband's old stomping grounds of Hamilton, Montana. Of course, she brought her pastry chef with her when she traveled west each year.
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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At over 76.2 m this tree situated on Stony Creek Road just off the Pacific Highway just north of Bulahdelah has in the past been reported to be the tallest tree in NSW. The tree is now considered to be senescent and some sources have suggested it may have once been as high as 84metres tall. It is thought to be over 400 years old.
Recently I have heard reports of another tall tree west of Coffs Harbour located in the Cunnawarra Flora Reserve on the Northern Tablelands of NSW.
This tree,reportedly a Eucalyptus nobilis - Ribbon Gum has been measured at 79m with no trunk diameter available at this time.
This Eucalyptus nobilis was lucky to escape recent destructive winds which damaged trees as close as only 30 metres from it.
In mid July 2010 I was fortunate to be guided through dense bush and rocky escarpments to see the Woodford Tree (Eucalyptus deanei)
This tree, in the NSW Blue Mountains, is definitely not senescent and is a healthy growing tree. According to Poytr it was measured in 1978 at 78m with a trunk girth of 2.6metres at chest height. (Source Poytr's image above)
In late 2010 Poytr in the company of an expert re visited and remeasured this tree at 71 metres with the previous measurement apparently not recorded as accurately as methods today allow.
Comparative to Agathis australis,The New Zealand Kauri,both the Myall Lakes National Park's Eucalyptus grandis and Cunnawarra Flora Reserve's Eucalyptus nobilis are much taller but would definitely not match the Kauri for girth.
There are however much taller trees among the Tasmanian, Victorian and Western Australian Forests.
Information from this Weblink - TALLEST TREES IN THE WORLD suggests the Robinson Tree a Eucalyptus regnans (Mountain Ash) at Mt. Baw Baw, Victoria, Australia circa 1889 was believed to have measured 143 m (470 ft.).
The Fergusen Tree, another Australian Eucalyptus regnans, at Watts River, Victoria, was measured in 1872 after it fell after a fire. It had reportedly been estimated to be over 150 m (492 ft.) tall.
However the tallest reliably documented tree ever measured in Australia was the Thorpdale Tree, a Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) growing at Thorpdale in Victoria, Australia. The tree was measured at 112.8m (370 feet) standing and 114.3m (375 feet) on the ground after it was felled in 1884.
In 2009 the tallest living trees in Australia are in Tasmania, the tallest of which is a massive 99.6 metre high Eucalyptus regnans known as Centurian The tree is near Geevestons Tahune Airwalk.
More information on Australia's tallest trees at these links.
isaac.org.au/info/bigtrees.htm
www.baddevelopers.green.net.au/Docs/talltrees.htm
www.natural-environment.com/blog/2008/01/22/tallest-tree-...
A new world's tallest tree was discovered in California in 2006.
The tree, a Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood) has been named Hyperion and was climbed and measured at 115.55m ( 379.1' ).
The video falsely claims the worlds tallest tree ever was a Douglas Fir which grew in British Coumbia Canada over 100 years ago at 122m. There seems little doubt however that Australia's 18th century Eucalyptus regans trees almost certainly were once the worlds tallest trees.
Today Eucalyptus regnans can claim to be the world's tallest flowering tree and also the world's tallest hardwood tree,if not currently having a candidate for the current world's tallest tree.
The article below graphically demonstrates that we simply cannot rely on our governments to ensure that policies are in place to prevent the tragic consequences of irresponsible or incompetant forestry management.
Tasmanian Forestry Department Burn Kills Tallest Tree
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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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I went to the redwoods today because I needed some inspiration and I always feel the amazing power of God when in the forest surrounded by almost-too-big redwood trees.
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For a park that fills up by like 10 am, we actually had a rare 15 minute stretch of no one on the main trail besides us.
President Theodore Rooseveltβs Remarks at the Big Tree Grove in Santa Cruz, California β May 11, 1903
βMr. Mayor, and Ladies First, and to the Rest of the Guests in the Second Place:
βI want to thank you very much for your courtesy in receiving me, and to say how much I have enjoyed being here. This is the first glimpse I have ever had of the big trees, and I wish to pay the highest tribute I can to the State of California, to those private citizens and associations of citizens who have co-operated with the State in preserving these wonderful trees for the whole nation, in preserving them in whatever part of the State they may be found. All of us ought to want to see nature preserved; and take a big tree whose architect has been the ages, anything that man does toward it may hurt it and cannot help it; and above all, the rash creature who wishes to leave his name to mar the beauties of nature should be sternly discouraged. Take those cards pinned up on that tree; they give an air of the ridiculous to this solemn and majestic grove.
βTo pin those cards up there is as much out of place as if you tacked so many tin cans up there. I mean that literally. You should save the people whose names are there from the reprobation of every individual by taking down the cards at the earliest possible moment; and do keep these trees, keep all the wonderful scenery of this wonderful State unmarred by the vandalism or the folly of man. Remember that we have to contend not merely with knavery, but with folly; and see to it that you by your actions create the kind of public opinion which will put a stop to any destruction of or any marring of the wonderful and beautiful gifts that you have received from nature, that you ought to hand on as a precious heritage to your children and your children's children. I am, oh, so glad to be here, to be in this majestic and beautiful grove, to see the wonderful redwoods, and I thank you for giving me the chance, and I do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future.β
[Theodore Roosevelt: "Remarks at the Big Tree Grove in Santa Cruz, California," May 11, 1903. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=97723.]
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Antarctic Beech, Nothofagus moorei at Cobark Park, Barrington Tops.
Those tourist trees at Lamington National Park are tiddlers compared to the giant Nothofagus at Barrington Tops and Werrikimbe National Park. This tree was double the height of those well photographed tourist industry money makers. This towering tree in a remote cool temperate rainforest, hundreds of kilometres to the south where hardly anyone goes.
This tree was immense, around 50 metres tall. Nearby was another with a massive base, five and a half metres in diameter. That base was almost square in shape, with a "new" shoot growing out of woody mass, some 35 metres high.
In many years of searching the cool temperate rainforests of eastern Australia I'd not seen a Nothofagus as tall as this photographed tree. How tall was it? Easy, go there and measure it as it is now horizontal. Blown over by a huge windstorm a few years ago.
But this may not be the end of this ancient organism. Antarctic Beech sprout from the base with epicormic shoots. And there's a good chance it will live a few decades (or centuries) more.
This was a glorious cool temperate rainforest. Big trees everywhere, but in the understorey were Mountain Walnut (Cryptocarya foveolata), Trochocarpa montana and many other fascinating plants.
A huge windstorm knocked down big trees in this forest. But, it's likely to retain its integrity and be just as impressive in a hundred years or more. Time goes slow in Cool Temperate Rainforests. And this flattened tree might yet reach the sky once more.
I visited the UBC Botanical Garden in the weekend. This is a nice place to go for families.
In the picture it is the canopy walkway of the garden.
The 308-metre walkway, which reaches heights in excess of 17.5 metres, enables visitors and researchers to experience the unique biodiversity of a Pacific Coastal Rainforest canopy, which include s treetop mosses, lichens, birds, insects and other invertebrates, and offers a "bird's eye" view of the forest canopy.
These ferns were on a hillside as we walked back down the trails. The hillside was dark and this photo was taken with the on-camera flash, which wasn't powerful enough to light the mossy background. Taken at Trees of Mystery, near the Klamath River.
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. The tree was 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 are large. 30 metres tall or thereabouts. Mostly Coachwood and Common Sassafras. Also tall nearby is Acacia elata, a common tree in moist areas in the Blue Mountains.
Joseph 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."
The recently resotred and refurbished Mariposa Grove starts with this new boardwalk. This is the main pathway for the Big Trees Loop trail and access to other trails.
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This tree is located on Bullocks Hut Rd, Norfolk Island as far as I recall and must have been planted in the late convict era perhaps. There is an even larger one at the Norfolk Island Airport with perhaps a similar history. This species is not a native tree of Australia although it was planted in Brisbane at New Farm for example, possibly also during the convict era.
Not to be confused with the banyan form of Ficus macrophylla found on Lord Howe Island called Ficus macrophylla forma columnaris.
Here is an example growing in Townsville.
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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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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 (10β15 mm diam.), on stalks 2.5β10 mm long and petioles to 4 cm long.
Photo taken in Sydney Botanic Gardens
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