Pre-1852 Eucalypts of Maldon Walk

Today’s FOBIF walk was in the Maldon township on a chilly, windy morning. We are grateful to Bev Phillips from MULGA ( Maldon Urban Landcare Group) for her informative and interesting talks, as we walked and gazed in wonder at the ancient trees. We now might be able to tell the difference between Grey Box, Yellow Box, Red Box and Long-leaved box trees, but as Bev kept reminding us, don’t just rely on the bark to identify a tree! (Bev acknowledged Frances Cincotta for that point of emphasis).  Specimen samples of some of the trees were provided so we could look closely at the leaf shape and fruit. It was a wonderful walk seeing the 500 year old tree and some of  the 300 & 200 year old trees, all catalogued on private and public land and being protected by MULGA.

Thanks to Linda Hickey for this contribution.