OT oldest trees in Canberra

To:	'calyptorhynchus' <>, 'Canberra Birds' <>
Subject:	OT oldest trees in Canberra
From:	Don Fletcher <>
Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:40:09 +0000

Hi John

Podocarpus lawrencei can live to 600 years and is present in higher parts of Namadgi, but I do not know if any of the ACT ones have been aged. Mountain Plum Pine, more a shrub than a tree in most cases.

Growth rings in Eucalyptus in the ACT have been studied at ANU Forestry, now Fenner School.

Don Fletcher

0428 48 9990

From: calyptorhynchus <>
Sent: Friday, 14 December 2018 8:23 AM
To: Canberra Birds <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] OT oldest trees in Canberra

A friend asked whether anyone knew what the oldest trees in the ACT were. I googled and came up with a Canberra Times article which alleged they were some Yellow Boxes on Tuggeranong Hill 'above Theodore' said to over 500 years old.

Does anyone know of any suspected older trees, and does anyone have more precise directions to these trees (coordinates?)

Thanks

John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net

‘There is kinship between people and all animals. Such is the Law.’ Kimberley lawmen (from Yorro Yorro)

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