Nick Fallaw

19 - Enviro/Law - Global Studies/Monash - Adventure // Ecology - Melb // Naarm 📍 - A space to chat about the arboreal.

[Nick Fallaw @FallawNicholas]

@issey_khong So good to share it with you! Canada also has some big fellas! #cheewatgiant #biglonelydoug #redcreekfir #quinaltlakeredcedar #Nolancreektree #stanleypark

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My journey to “Blackbeard”, #Victorias former largest living tree. This tree was a massive 245m3, 73m tall until a 2014 storm tore off the top 16m (& 15m3). It is now the 4th largest tree in the state. Nearby logging in #Toolangi state forest shows just how rare these giants are.

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@animaljusticeAU Hey guys, this is a massively misleading post. As it says in the headline, he was fined AFTER culling these birds, and only for possession of an “INCORRECT WEAPONS PERMIT” - NOT BECAUSE he killed these birds. No matter anyone’s views this is misinformation. Cheers,

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@AnnMW5 @animaljusticeAU What they’re saying is that the Kookaburra is native to Australia, but not all of Australia. Which is true, something can be native to a named country and not present in every region etc. koalas are native to aus but you also don’t find them in Tas or NT

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@maritesotelo Hi Marite! It’s beautiful to know that other people, from all over our world are touched by these special places. I certainly thank them for taking care of us! The book I mention can be found here: https://t.co/0qP8NB7Iq6 and on Google, search “Cathederal Fig Tree QLD” 🌳❤️

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Oh it’s big. “Cathederal Fig”. 500 year old #FicusVirens on Yidinji country near Atherton. The volume and weight of epiphytic life in this one tree is astonishing, held upright much like a true Cathederal by flying buttresses - maybe this is the true Cathederal? I’ll worship it.

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@maritesotelo @arboles_magicos @arboles_magicos Would love for you to see this. A beautiful tree. Thankyou @maritesotelo for the tag!

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@Richard93152603 @GreatForestNP @Wilderness_Aus @ChristineMilne Too right!

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@hula_grl @GreatForestNP @Wilderness_Aus @ChristineMilne Thanks Ruth! It’s a Mountain Ash, “E. Regnans” -but is an odd case as the rough “collar” normally only seen over the basal 10-20m extends much of the trees height. It may be a result of great age, or fire suppressive genetics that see it remain today. “Blackbeard” seems fitting.

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This image shows the 16m portion which now litters the forest floor. It took with it many branches, the trees structure now primarily epicormic. This picture is courtesy of the inimitable #BrettMifsud, whose work in locating and cataloguing Australia’s giant trees is priceless.

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2: It is possible that this individual tree is of the subspecies “Araucaria Cunninghamii Var. Glauca”. This suspected lineage is endemic to Queensland’s Magnetic Island, and may explain the “coralitic” foliage as an adaptation to excess salt spray.

18m height, ~4m dbh.

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An extraordinary ‘Hoop Pine’, (Araucaria Cunninghamii) on private property, Melbourne. The tree was planted c.1858 and is distinctive in an 1870s photos of the house (below). The tree displays a unique growth habit, absent of all juvenile foliage and far more dense than usual.

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@OaksofSweden Incredible mate. Thanks for the photos; it’s an awesome history and a beautiful tree.

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The ~1000 y/o “Twin Kauris” at lake Barrine; ‘Agathis microstachya’. The largest of the pair (LHS) is 6.52m dbh, & 44.0m to an intact crown. Recent instalment of a view deck looks to have damaged subterranean roots and weeping bark now surrounds the trees basal north side. Irony.

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@CorigJan Cheers for the reply mate!! And too right, among the strezlecki #chequerboard of radiata and monoculture this place stands out. Relictual Nothofagus on the ridge too! ‘Dr. Mcavity next’. Stay in touch, had a chat with Alice recently and it looks like Tas is finally the horizon…

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Weekend mission to the ‘Brataualung Beauty” // “Mt. Fatigue Giant”. E. Regnans, 18.95 duff-concealed dbh and 40 metres to dead and broken top. Condition is fair with healthy epicormic shooting and two primary limbs intact, though base is very hollowed. Off track in Gunyah SR.

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@tequilarebel @itsnotfairman For sure. The book “Prom country, a history” has some great written and visual recollections of that great southern forest.

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@itsnotfairman Cheers Tom for the reply! Totally agreed. In what is now a Patchwork forest the Gunyah area truly does stand out. The tree has a pretty significant taper, but that base is a world of its own… passageways inside the roots transecting the tree. Will post some nearby giants soon.

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Interested in thoughts on the health of this tree too. It appears the upper canopy is senescing rapidly (season unrelated given the amount of moisture present?). Some #epicormic growth is apparent but peeling bark at dbh may indicate the end is nearing. A very good innings. 🌳

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@DeanNicolle1 G’day Dean, a fellow 19 y/o Gum-nutt!

Created a Twitter Acc to share my recent pictures of the giant E. Camaldulensis,‘the Morwell Tree’.

No exact📍(or photos but yours/Brett M’s) + Fyans Ck flooding made for a surreal 4km of deep water on foot.

Special tree.

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South and West Faces, Trunk and Crown observations: