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#photography #bushfire #nature #eucalypts #VintageLens #helios44

Two gum tree trunks stand offset, one to the mid left, the other behind and to the mid right. The closer was burnt in a bushfire, a large inverted V-shaped hole through the trunk at ground level revealing a charred interior through to the forest behind. The tree has survived, growing new bark over the dead wood. The ground is covered in large, lichen covered stones, with small banksia bushes and swordgrass scattered about. Very typical dry sclerophyll forest.

#Australia's #Gumtrees / #Eucalypts / Teatrees do their own version of spraying the paving with weedkiller.

They drop lots of bark, branches and leaves, all of which contain plant growth-inhibitors. #EucalyptusOil being the most widely know.

This reduces both competition and unfavourable soil changes.

I saw the word #Dross being applied to this dropped material. But with gbbgle having stuffed the net can't find the site.

Below is a pic showing newly fallen bark on top of older dross.

Narrow strips of thin brown bark lie on a ground with many brown leaves, very little grass and patches of bare sand.

love #eucalypts and their exquisite colour palette

Eucalypt leaves in their beautiful green and petrol hues and dark red leaf stem

Bit foggy. #nature #trees #fog #eucalypts #deepcreek #deepcreeknationalpark #southaustralia

A foggy hiking trail bordered with twisted eucalyptus trees.

Cutting last year's growth from Eucalyptus cloeziana (Gympie Messmate) pollards. This was an experiment to grow what is usually very large trees into a small area for pole/post (and biomass) production. Could also be a technique for growing Eucalypts in urban yards if one was so inclined.

The thicker prunings are used for fuel/biochar production with the leaf and twigs used for mulch below these stems.

#pollard #trees #permaculture #eucalypts #gardeningau

A number of Eucalyptus pollards viewed from below. A series of straight stems with tall bushy growth on top.

A close-up of a pollard "poll" during pruning. 3 of the larger regrowth stems remain, some minor branches are visibly pruned off. In the background are pollard stems that have been completely pruned.

A view of the pollards fully pruned. A number of straight stems with pruning cuts made to the poll site, a swollen growth of previous pruning cuts.

A zoomed in shot of coloured purple-red new epicormic growth shooting from the poll pruning site. This is 4 weeks later.

Tree hidey-holes key to helping slow declines of small mammals
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tree-hidey-holes-key-declines.html

Nestbox use indicates declining arboreal #mammals in an Australian savanna may be limited by tree hollow availability https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112724002275

"to slow declines and stop extinctions of hollow-using #animals in northern #Australia, protecting large #savanna #eucalypts as ecosystem assets would be critical"

Photo of a small squirrel-like animal in a wooden nestbox

Crisp et al. address uncertainty around generic delimitation in the tribe Eucalypteae using a #phylogenetic analysis with the largest #molecular data set to date!
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https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13047
@WileyEcolEvol
#PlantSci #evolution #ecology #eucalypts #perianth #PlantDevelopment #botany

Panel of morphological photographs to illustrate the different perianth characters used for mapping on the phylogeny.

Koalas depend on bats

"Without the bats, the koalas wouldn't have the trees. So the bats are the ones that are fertilising those big eucalypts that koalas love."

"A lot of people overseas when they think of Australia, they think of koalas." In Australia "there's ...a lack of awareness about the role of bats in controlling insect populations, pollinating plants and spreading seeds, much like birds and bees do."

"Perceptions have consequences: The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) says more than half of the state's species are in decline, or their status is unknown, due to a lack of research."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-28/australia-bats-poor-reputation-covid-links-and-vampire-myths/103669082
#koalas #bats #FlyingFoxes #eucalypts #mining #misconception #superstition #EcologicalLiteracy

https://theconversation.com/sugar-gums-have-a-reputation-as-risky-branch-droppers-but-theyre-important-to-bees-parrots-and-possums-227221

I'm part of its cheer squad. #SugarGums are an attractive habitat and food source for our wild life.

#eucalypts #auspol

One of our Swamp Bloodwoods has burst into glorious colour #AustralianNatives #eucalypts #NativeGardening

Photograph shows a cluster of vibrant pink eucalyptus flowers. Each flower looks like a sea anemone with delicate pink stalks, each topped with a tiny yellow drop, fanning out from the flower's centre

#Eucalypts are globally significant sources of timber, paper pulp & essential oils. Here, Crisp et al. use phylogenetic mapping to explore perianth #evolution and implications for generic delimitation in the group. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13047
@WileyEcolEvol
#PlantSci #JSE #phylogeny #botany

Changes to eucalypt phylogeny, raising Corymbia subg. Blakella to genus rank.

These two photos of dead eucalyptus trees surrounded by greenery illustrate how the bush can bounce back after fire. I’m guessing that the first picture shows an area that burned in 2006/7 so there has been time for new trees to pop up around the burned ones, while the second pic is probably an area that burned in 2020, so there is only grass and shrubs around the trees at this point. #straya #eucalypts #bushfires

A hill covered in a mix of dead and living eucalyptus trees, with a road passing in front, under a blue sky.

Blackened and dead eucalyptus trees surrounded by grass, flowers and low shrubs.

Woohoo I knew it would happen eventually.. when I said I'm planting some #Eucalypts in pots in our #BalconyGarden to attract native wildlife and hopefully a #koala or two.. people scoffed. Who's laughing now, koala-sceptics?!

It's a koala in a gum tree!

Ok it's one of those little souvenir clip-on koalas you get from the $2 shop but it's still a koala.

In the background is the old bakery shelving with the pot plants that our actual wildlife visitors (a turtle dove and her mate) like to sit in every morning and have a little coo-coo in the sun. (Not a euphemism, so far we have no eggs. I think they just like the sunny spot relatively out of view to others. They're adorbs and now they have a koala friend to coo at.)

#MedicinalPlants #Benalla #Eucalypts #Alzheimers #Dementia #Farming #AusFarmers #Auspol

"Things like pinocembrin in eucalypts are relatively recent discoveries; it's been known in plants in China for millennia.

"Interestingly enough they use plants high in pinocembrin as tea for elderly people."

#Auspol

From: @mojo
https://aus.social/@mojo/111097068476025206

Meet my new friend. They’re sweet, but a little prickly. I like their habitat. A lot.
#echidna #eucalypts #beach #nature

Echidna in context. In the grass in the foreground, with bushes behind, and blue blue Batemans Bay behind. Southern coast of the bay beyond the water.

The curve of a sandy beach with turquoise water rolling in, a strip of bushy headland, blue skies, and clouds far above

Endangered glossy black #cockatoo being lured to #SouthAustralia mainland with 20,000 trees
#Conservationists hope to tempt the subspecies from #KangarooIsland by planting drooping sheoaks and #eucalypts #extinction #endageredspecies

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/14/endangered-glossy-black-cockatoo-being-lured-to-south-australian-mainland-with-20000-trees

#banksias #eucalypts

Yellow banksia flower and green leaves seen in the sunshine against a bright blue sky

Illawarra Escarpment covered in dense eucalypt bushland

Moonlit eucalypts.

#nature #landscape #eucalypts #eucalyptus #thebush

Want to grow #eucalyptus in your yard but they are too darn big?

Try #pollard, an ancient practice of cutting the "poll" at a pre-determined height and using or cycling the material for mulch. Every cut is always made on new wood so it's a sound #arboriculture practice, it can maintain #trees to specific heights that are reset on a cycle plus they don't get out of control. Bonus is, they also live longer based on a pollard history of thousands of years.

Pictured here are Eucalyptus cloeziana, Gympie Messmate, pollards with #vetiver grass underneath as a mulching plant. The Vetiver existed first, the #eucalypts were planted in after the Vetiver Grass suppressed the pasture grass.

These poles will be grown and harvested as 2.1m posts eventually while some Kei Apples and Citrus establish underneath.

As soon as these reached a medium size, insects like sawfly and stick insects moved in which were never present before as the area is too small to grow full size Gum trees.

If you are interested in a history of #coppice and/or pollard, there are some books available, one example: https://www.williambryantlogan.com/sprout-lands

#gardening #gardeningau #permaculture #australia

2 lines of straight Eucalyptus with a Vetiver Grass hedge running through the middle.

Eucalyptus pollards with Vetiver Grass beneath them. The Eucalypts have straight boles and have been topped at a uniform height.

Almost too much beauty. BBQ at Kinross Farm, Metcalfe. #eucalypts #RuralVictoria #Kyneton #AnzacDay

#eucalypts

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