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Level of Significance

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  • Local
  • Regional
  • State
  • National

Age

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Trees

1

Diameter

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Height - ?m

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Details

Common name
Pink Gum
Botanical name
Eucalyptus fasciculosa
Other name
Climbing Tree (Aboriginal)
Type
Avenue
Condition
Good
Municipality
Naracoorte Lucindale (SA)
Location
Adjacent To The A.W. Sherriff Reserve, 5Km N Of Naracoorte. Burkes Road Naracoorte SA 5271
Access
Restricted
Significances
  • Remnant (Scientific)
  • Other scientific (Scientific)
  • Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander (Social)

Statement of Significance

This is an authenticated (which is rare) Aboriginal climbing tree.Trees with a regular supply of honey-possums, and birds in their hollows had notches cut into the trunk to provide step-holds.Stones were placed in the notches and, if left,would be covered over by the growing tissue, forming knobbly regularly-spaced outgrowths up the tree trunk.