Tasmanian blue gum is popular plantation tree as it is well suited for Mediterranean climate and also tropics, it grows fast and serves as a good material for pulp and eucalypt oil. Current record holder is lower than the tallest known trees of this species – there have existed up to 101 m tall Tasmanian blue gums.
The name of the tree – Neeminah Loggorale Meena – means "Mother and daughter" and has been given by Aboriginal students of St.James College, Sydney. In fact Tasmania’s Aboriginal community has expressed against Forestry Tasmania about the use of Aboriginal language for the names of champion trees. They see it as a method to create more positive public image of forestry sector which is much blamed for cutting the absolutely unique forest of Tasmania.
Wondermondo also wonders… after all Australia seems to be a rich country. Is Australia in such a desperate need that some of the most magnificent natural forest in the world should be cut?
Neeminah Loggorale Meena is included in the following list:
References
- Giant Trees. Tasmania’s world class giants. Accessed 19.12.10, not available anymore.
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Coordinates: | 42.9639 S 146.7560 E |
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Address: | Australia and Oceania, Australia, Tasmania, some 35 km northwest from Huonville |
Alternate name: | TT 363 |
Species: | Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus Labill.) |
Height: | 90.7 m |
Diameter: | 3.88 m |
Circumference: | 12.2 m |
Volume: | 233 m3 |
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Landmarks of Australia
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Trees
Recommended books
Eucalypt Ecology: Individuals to Ecosystems
Eucalypts make up a remarkable genus as the dominant trees of Australia. This authoritative volume provides current reviews by active researchers in many disciplines, including evolutionary history, genetics, distribution and modeling, the relationship of eucalypts to fire and nutrients, ecophysiology, pollination and reproductive ecology, interactions between eucalypts and other coexisting biota as well as conservation and management.
In Tasmania
The settlement of Tasmania by Europeans began two hundred years ago. Nicholas Shakespeare first went there, having heard of the island’s exceptional beauty, because it was famously remote. He soon decided that this was where he wanted to live. Only later did he discover a cache of letters written by an ancestor as corrupt as he was colorful: Anthony Fenn Kemp, the so-called Father of Tasmania.