Eucalyptus Jacksonii is one of three Tingle species; the other two are less gigantic, but still very substantial.
All have very thick “skins”, as pictured.
They occur only within the “Walpole Wilderness”.
Like their “biggest brother”, a Rate’s tingle (Eucalyptus brevistylis) or a yellow tingle (Eucalyptus guilfoylei) can live for 400 years.
It appears increasingly likely that no 21st century “newborn” is even remotely likely to attain such a lifespan.
Homo sapiens is the author of the tingles’ precarious future.
Their wonderfully thick/shaggy/fibrous bark – and their bulk – remind me of woolly mammoths…and of those pachyderms’ fate.
Rate’s tingle is named after the area’s first forester ; click here for an interesting, well-illustrated article
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