Forest Trees of AustraliaDJ Boland, MIH Brooker, GM Chippendale, N Hall, BPM Hyland, RD Johnston, DA Kleinig, MW McDonald, JD Turner Forest Trees of Australia is the essential reference for observing, identifying and obtaining information on the native trees in this country. It describes and illustrates over 300 of our most important indigenous trees, which have been carefully selected for their environmental significance, their importance to the timber industry, or their prominence in our landscape. This new and thoroughly revised edition has been fully updated throughout and includes treatments of 72 additional species. New maps and photographs show us a wonderfully diverse range of forests, from mangrove swamps, tropical regions and deserts, to alpine areas and majestic stands of temperate forests. A colour section illustrates some of the major forest types of Australia and bark from a diverse range of species. Forest Trees of Australia is an unsurpassed guide to identification for horticulturists, botanists, foresters, students, farmers, environmentalists and all those who are interested in our native trees. |
Contents
Eudesmids | 262 |
Symphyomyrtus Gums Boxes Ironbarks Mallees Mallets | 278 |
Eastern Blue Gums Red Mahoganies and Grey Gums | 288 |
Red gums | 310 |
Mallees Mallets and Marlocks | 332 |
Gums | 386 |
Boxes and Ironbarks | 438 |
The Boxes | 439 |
AngiospermsDicotyledons 61 | 61 |
Apocynaceae | 62 |
Avicenniaceae | 65 |
Bombacaceae | 67 |
Caesalpiniaceae | 69 |
Casuarinaceae | 70 |
Chrysobalanaceae | 86 |
Cochlospermaceae | 88 |
Combretaceae | 91 |
Cunoniaceae | 94 |
Elaeocarpaceae | 101 |
Eucryphiaceae | 104 |
Fabaceae | 107 |
Fagaceae | 111 |
Lauraceae | 117 |
Meliaceae | 122 |
Mimosaceae | 126 |
Monimiaceae | 190 |
Moraceae | 194 |
Myrtaceae | 196 |
Eucalypts | 200 |
Angophoras | 212 |
Ghost gums | 218 |
Bloodwoods | 226 |
The Boxironbarks | 474 |
The Terminales Boxes Gums and Ironbarks | 492 |
Monocalypts Tingles Jarrah White Mahoganies Stringybarks Blackbutts Ashes Peppermints | 512 |
Stringybarks | 532 |
Ashes | 558 |
Peppermints | 590 |
Melaleucas | 612 |
Proteaceae | 634 |
Rhizophoraceae | 648 |
Rubiaceae | 650 |
Rutaceae | 652 |
Santalaceae | 658 |
Sapindaceae | 660 |
Sterculiaceae | 662 |
Verbenaceae | 670 |
AngiospermsMonocotyledons | 673 |
Arecaceae | 674 |
Abbreviations | 683 |
Glossary | 684 |
Illustrations of Botanical Terms Used in the Text | 702 |
707 | |
715 | |
Common terms and phrases
Acacia Adult leaf venation Adult leaves Adult—alternate Altitudinal range areas axillary bipinnate blackbutt bloodwood branches branchlets broad-lanceolate Brooker brown buds and fruits Climate cm long coastal coldest months colour concolorous crown dark density disc Distinctive features durable elliptical Eucalyptus exserted fine flattened flowers foliage Frost incidence glossy green grey greyish green grows heartwood hemispherical hilum hilum ventral Hottest/coldest months hypanthia inflorescences Intermediate leaves ironbark juvenile leaves lanceolate leaflets loams Lyctus mainly mallee moderate Northern Territory open forests opercula operculum ovate ovoid panicles pedicels peduncles peppermint petiolate phyllodes pruinose Queensland Rainfall rainforest red gum Related species River river red gum rough bark sandy Sapwood sea level Seedling Seedling—opposite Seeds sessile shortly petiolate smooth soils South Wales southern stamens stem stringybark subsp summer max Tablelands tall tree Tasmania timber tree height trunk Type usually valves Victoria Western Australia winter max Wood woodlands yellow