November 20, 2017

A lot of people have been telling us how certain trees are no longer considered Eucalypts. And they are right. But damn it!  This is a poetic exercise and if I can't have the Smooth Barked Apple and Spotted Gum in this venture then I shall be very upset. I mean to say...  look at this amazing bark...  If this doesn't say "celebrate our natural diversity" then I don't know what does. This picture was taken in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens. There is an Australian Native Trees section which has a bunch of great Eucalypts, Corymbias and Angophoras. Even better, considering how hard Eucalypts can be to identify there being more than 700 of them, these trees had labels so I knew what they were without taking nut, leaf and bark samples :-)