This boab did not grow where it stands.
Ancient trees in Australia
Australia's old trees keep two different kinds of time. This page maps 53 remarkable trees across 5 cities in Australia, each one researched and verified. The oldest of them is Gija Jumulu in Perth, at over 750 years.
Melbourne's elms have grown to a size and age Europe lost, because Dutch elm disease never crossed the water; its Osage orange on Yarra Boulevard is dated to the 1860s, among the oldest plantings the site maps here. Hobart's Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, founded in 1818 and the country's second-oldest, holds a Douglas fir older than Australian Federation itself, planted in 1894, alongside dawn redwoods of a species known only from fossils until a living stand was found in China in 1941. Brisbane's City Botanic Gardens, laid out from 1855, grew the tree that started the country's entire macadamia industry, dated from trials beginning 1858. Nothing mapped here is ancient by European or Japanese standards; almost everything is a nineteenth-century planting that got lucky with a climate and a curator who tried something unusual.
Every mapped city in Australia
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Brisbane19 trees · oldest over 200 years2Melbourne12 trees · oldest around 160 years, planted in the 1860s3Hobart10 trees · oldest about 147 years4
Perth6 trees · oldest over 750 years5Sydney6 trees · oldest roughly 178 years
Brisbane19 trees · oldest over 200 years2Melbourne12 trees · oldest around 160 years, planted in the 1860s3Hobart10 trees · oldest about 147 years4Perth6 trees · oldest over 750 years5Sydney6 trees · oldest roughly 178 years37 species grow in Australia
Oaks Holm Oak 3 · Pedunculate Oak 1
Elms and zelkovas English Elm 1
Planes London Plane 1
Figs and mulberries Moreton Bay Fig 6 · Port Jackson Fig 2 · Bodhi Tree 1 · Cunningham's Fig / White Fig 1 · Hill's Fig 1 · Indian Banyan 1 · Osage Orange 1 · Weeping Fig 1
Conifers Bhutan Cypress 2 · Norfolk Island Pine 2 · Queensland Kauri 2 · Chir Pine 1 · Cook Pine 1 · Dawn Redwood 1 · Douglas Fir 1 · Giant Sequoia 1 · Hoop Pine 1
Southern hemisphere River Red Gum 3 · Blue Jacaranda 1 · Jarrah 1 · Red-flowering Gum 1 · Spotted Gum 1 · Sugar Gum 1 · Yate 1
More broadleaf trees Crows Ash / Australian Teak 3 · Big-leaf Mahogany 1 · Black Bean 1 · Boab 1 · Macadamia 1 · Mahogany 1 · Queen's Crepe Myrtle 1 · Silky Oak 1 · Tamarind 1
The oldest tree mapped in Australia
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