You are looking at new growth on a very old, very large tree.
The Red Tingle – Eucalyptus Jacksonii – is a survivor, just, from a much wetter time.
Its “suitable habitat” has shrunk to a tiny portion of Western Australia’s south coast; almost all of it within Walpole-Nornalup National Park, which contains the wettest part of southern Western Australia.
The number of mature red tingles now living is almost certainly less than 40,000.
They are almost certainly outnumbered by the humans who now reside in Albany – south coastal WA’s “big smoke”.
Walpole-Nornalup National Park includes globally-unique forest.
Discover more about Eucalyptus Jacksonii here.
The base of the largest one reputedly has the biggest “girdle” of any living eucalyptus tree.
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