Friday, May 29, 2009

Eucalyptus platypus platypus

Have been measuring trees for 4 weeks, and just got back from Ravensthorpe. One of the favourite sites we measured was a large stand of mort, on a farm just below the Lake Magenta Mallee Fowl Reserve.

3 comments:

Spencer Collins said...

Great picture Chrissy. I have always had a soft spot for the Eucalyptus platypus. Some of the street verges in Cottesloe have been planted with the E. platypus heterophylla, marvellous.

sontag said...

Indeed, nice pic.

Measuring trees, huh?

Did you read "Eucalyptus" when it came out?

chrissie said...

hey colin, nice to see you the other balcony! will definately have to check out those cottesloe plantings. nice one. haven't read "eucalyptus" but i do have some nice images from extacted readings floating around in my mind.
- measuring the diameter of stems to do carbon storage analysis, with greening australia.
got into some salmon gums forests too, fantastic! seriously, go have a look, ravensthorpe is a truely magnificent landscape.