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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 04-19-2021, 05:31 PM

Thematic The view upward (take part, please...)
Posted By Des

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As Rob said, the common name used in Victoria, Mountain Ash, is a colonial legacy (as is the name of the State). These are Eucalyptus regnans.

There are hundreds of species of eucalypts in Australia, consisting of the genera Eucalyptus, Angophora and Corymbia. They occur from the most arid places to the wettest, from plains to the highest peaks, and range from small trees to the mighty regnans, the tallest angiosperm (flowering plant) in the world.

Hard to tell from the photo what the species is in the plantation near you. Blue gums (E. globulus species) are commonly used in plantations. The Southern or Tasmanian blue gum (E.globulus globulus) can grow to 70m.

Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 04-16-2021, 02:38 PM

Thematic The view upward (take part, please...)
Posted By Des

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Many thanks Hans. These Eucalyptus regnans trees are relatively young - regrowth after the 1939 fires - but still upwards of 70m. They can grow to more than 90m. The biggest of them, up to 600 years old, were cut down in the 19th century, but were measured as the tallest trees in the world at the time - one was measured at 143m and another at 133m (with the crown broken off) (Brian Walters in Melbourne: Tall trees).

Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 04-15-2021, 06:02 PM

Thematic The view upward (take part, please...)
Posted By Des

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Mountain Ash forest, South Gippsland, Victoria. KP + DA 15 Ltd.

Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-11-2020, 04:01 AM

Thematic The view upward (take part, please...)
Posted By Des

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You with the camera, sod off ...

KP + FA*300 f4.5.

Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 06-01-2019, 02:56 PM

Thematic The view upward (take part, please...)
Posted By Des

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Water birds overhead.

Pacific Gull. K-3 + FA*300 f4.5 + Kenko 1.5x TC

Australasian Gannet. K-3 + DA 55-300 PLM

White-faced Heron. K-30 + Tamron 18-250

Great Egret. K-3 + FA*300

Australian White Ibis. K-3 + FA*300

Australian Pelican. K-3 + FA*300

Crested Tern. KP + DA 55-300 PLM

Shy Albatross. K-3 + DA 55-300 PLM

Yellow-billed Spoonbill. K-3 + FA*300 + Kenko 1.5x TC