Syd Curtis wrote:
>On the subject of stinging trees, I once observed a mature male
>Satin Bowerbird in the Knoll National Park on Tamborine Mountain in
>southern Queensland, browsing on the leaves of the Shining-leaved Stinging
>Tree (Dendrocnide photinophylla). And more remarkably, I was called by a
>Zoologist friend to witness a common ringtail possum dining happily on the
>leaves of a Giant Stinging Tree (D. excelsa) a little south of Mt Mistake
>in the Main Range National Park, also in southern Queensland.
Now we know why it's called Mt Mistake!!!
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