Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos

I only went to Falls Creek and skied once, the Mountain Ash beside the road are flat out amassing as to width and height, some around 300ft. Compared to what I was used to, Snow Gums in NSW, 30ft low and scrubby. Completely different considering there only 200ks apart. I have seen pics of that fire lookout tree around your area Rob.
 
A mountain ash up on Reeton Spur, the famous bike road, in Victoria was blown down with many of it's family in a huge storm in the´70s. The fallen tree was measured as having been the tallest tree in the world before it fell.
 
What so amassing with Mountain Ash is how thin they are for the height. I have seen the Californian Redwoods north of San Francisco and there way thicker.
 
Mountain Ash (eucalyptus regnans) could possibly be the tallest of all plant species if they're left to grow without some bugger chopping them down. Centurion was only discovered in 2008, so there could be taller ones out there in the Tasmanian wilderness that have yet to be measured.
 
That's why when they say Tassie Tigers cannot be around is a bit of a joke. They miss seeing a whacking huge tree so hiding animals would be way harder to find in those remote spots.
 
I'd say in my area the Karri would be the tallest, 60m but have been known to reach 90m. not as tall as the Mountain Ash. I have Red Tingle forrest which include Karri and Casuarina and Yellow Tingle. The Red Tingle aren't so high, up to 70m but most of them have lost their crowns over the 400 years being there. They do have a huge girth, my biggest over 3 metres dia. There is one down the road that measures like 29m around the base.
 
Waiting for the ferry (Lorch, Rhine Gorge, upper middle Rhine valley):

51256308535_3bcc93ba9e_b.jpg





Arrived - after a long (hot) day out and about:

51255466713_8320cba50e_b.jpg


(y) :cool:
 
Last edited:
Dellortoman said:
Mountain Ash (eucalyptus regnans) could possibly be the tallest of all plant species if they're left to grow without some bugger chopping them down. Centurion was only discovered in 2008, so there could be taller ones out there in the Tasmanian wilderness that have yet to be measured.
Click to expand...
Half of my post got deleted somehow, so apologies if it didn't make sense. "Centurion" is a 100m mountain ash in the Arve Valley in Tassie. Currently listed on Wikipedia as the world's second tallest tree known to exist. The Tallest is "Hyperion", a 115m tall Redwood in California.

Mountain ash species as tall 125m were recorded in the mid 1800's by Victorian logging gangs, but they were all chopped down for their timber. There was a report of a 180m tree in the Dandenong ranges, but that was never confirmed. Sounds a bit unlikely to me. Maybe one of the loggers had been smoking gum leaves.
 
Pretty sure there was one up in the forest east of Melbourne measured some incredible height that had lost what they reckon was the top 25% from a lightning strike or storm damage - was over 420 feet (128m). Have no doubt the early settlers killed many specimens higher than that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top