OT oldest trees in Canberra

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Given the way the ACT Government cuts down big trees its a fair bet there are no old ones in the urban area.  On the up side its easier to count the rings when the trees are horizontal and don't have that annoying canopy!

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 08:40, Don Fletcher <> wrote:

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

 

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John Leonard
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