There are two of them, they went in together in 1879, and they still mark the entrance drive of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens.
Ancient Trees in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Hobart, Australia
Five of the six trees mapped here came from somewhere else, and the sixth is Australian without being Tasmanian.
A Douglas fir out of the Pacific Northwest went into the ground in 1894, seven years before the Australian colonies federated, and measured 30 metres when the National Trust looked at it in 2014. Two giant sequoias planted together in 1879 still mark the entrance drive. A Queensland kauri, a rainforest tree from the warm wet coast far to the north, reaches 39 metres here at 42 degrees south and is listed on Hobart's register under four headings at once, where most trees carry one. A chir pine from the dry Himalayan foothills droops needles thirty centimetres long. The spotted gum is the local one, and even it grows wild in New South Wales rather than on this island.
This tree is older than Australia.
This tree is listed under four separate headings on Hobart's significant tree register: aesthetic significance, outstanding dimensions, venerable age, and rarity.
Hobart's register calls this the Longleaved Indian Pine, and the name is the best short description of it.
This oak is not on Hobart's significant tree register for being large or old.
Every other tree on this page came from somewhere else.
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