Forest Trees of AustraliaForest 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 the most important indigenous trees, which have been carefully selected for their environmental significance, their importance to the timber industry, or their prominence in the landscape. This new and thoroughly revised edition has been fully updated throughout and includes treatments of 72 additional species. New maps and photographs show a wonderfully diverse range of forests, from mangrove swamps, tropical regions and deserts, to alpine areas and majestic stands of temperate forests. A color 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 Australian native trees. |
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Acacia Adult leaf venation Adult leaves Adult—alternate Altitudinal range areas axillary bipinnate blackbutt bloodwood bluish green 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 Flowers foliage Frost incidence glossy green greyish green grows heartwood hemispherical hilum hilum ventral Hottest/coldest months hypanthia Inflorescences Intermediate leaves ironbark juvenile leaves lanceolate loams longitudinal 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 SeedlingÑopposite 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