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Category Archives: Botanical Heritage
Brachyglottis brunonis, The Daisytree of the Table Mountain
Since time immemorial, mountains have held special meaning to humans, and coming from a place where the tallest point in the landscape was a measly 169m high, I took the first available opportunity to visit the most accessible mountain when … Continue reading
A meeting with the White Knights
It is common knowledge that the Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) is the worlds tallest flowering tree and that Tasmania has some of Australia’s tallest old growth forests. So magnificent are the Mountain Ashes that significant individuals have earned appellations such … Continue reading
The Lily before the lilies, Campynema lineare
In Tasmania’s heaths, herbfields, cliffs, lake margins and among cushion plant communities of the Northwestern and Central highlands lurk one of Tasmania’s most elusive botanical secrets – a little lily that hails from a botanical lineage of great antiquity. First … Continue reading
The Honey Pilgrimage to Chudleigh
Actually, it would be quite inaccurate for me to call this a pilgrimage. My partner and I were on our way to Cradle Mountain and driving by Chudleigh when I noticed a strange building. Without a doubt, it was designed … Continue reading
Posted in Botanical Heritage, Honey
Tagged Chudleigh, Honey, honey ice cream, Melita honey farm
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Treubia – Making leaves their own way
Students of mosses (muscologists) have their agendas to see the Globe Moss when they come to Tasmania. For students of liverworts (a.k.a hepaticologists), Tasmania houses yet another bryological treasure – a genus of liverworts known as Treubia. Worldwide, Treubia has … Continue reading
Communion with the Miena Cider Gum
A single field trip up toward the Central Highlands offers plenty for a plant lover to see and do. One thing that must be done however, is to pay homage to the cider gums (Eucalyptus gunnii) of the highland areas. … Continue reading
Posted in Botanical Heritage, Bush Tucker, Ethnobotany, Eucalypts, Key Characters, Plant Appreciation, Plant Morphology, Tasmanian Endemics, Trees
Tagged Brad Potts, cider gum, Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus divaricata, Eucalyptus gunnii, Eucalyptus gunnii subsp. divaricata, Eucalyptus gunnii subsp. gunnii, Gintaras Kantvilas, Miena Cider Gum, Myrtaceae, Threatened Plants, Wendy Potts
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The globe on a stalk, Pleurophascum grandiglobum
When ardent students of mosses or bryologists traverse the globe to come to Tasmania, they will have, among the top candidates of their ‘to-see’ list, an `endemic Tasmanian moss. This is none other than Pleurophascum grandiglobum. Rest assured that this … Continue reading
Posted in Biogeography, Botanical Heritage, Botanical History, Bryophytes, Key Characters, Plant Morphology, Tasmanian Endemics
Tagged Bryophytes, buttongrass sedgeland, cleistocarpous, cleistocarpous mosses, endemic bryophytes, endemic mosses, Ferdinand von Mueller, mosses, Pleurophascaceae, Pleurophascum, Pleurophascum grandiglobum, Pleurophascum ocidentale, Pleurophascum ovalifolium, Robert Johnston, Sextus Otto Lindberg, von Mueller
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The return to the Vale of Belvoir
After a year of looking at tree rings in an office, there was no better way of finding a piece of haven than a visit to the Vale of Belvoir Conservation Area, one of my favourite places in Tasmania. Like … Continue reading
Posted in Botanical Heritage, Fieldtrips, Habitats, Parks and Nature Reserves, Threatened Plants
Tagged Alpine appleberry, Alpine Marshwort, central highlands, Central Plateau, Liparophyllum gunnii, Loganiaceae, Menyanthaceae, mitrewort, Mountain mitrewort, Pittosporaceae, Rhytidosporum inconspicuum, Schizacme montana, Vale of Belvoir
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Tasmania’s iconic orphan: the Delicate Laurel (Tetracarpaea tasmannica)
The Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus), Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata), Deciduous Beech (Nothofagus gunnii), Myrtle Beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii) and Pandani (Richea pandanifolia) are names that are often cited by plant enthusiasts and bushwalkers guidebooks as ‘must-sees’ of Tasmania. But these five … Continue reading
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