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Level of Significance

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Age

135yrs

Trees

1

Diameter

3m

Height - 50m

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Details

Common name
Monterey Pine
Botanical name
Pinus radiata
Type
Specimen
Condition
Poor
Municipality
Moorabool (VIC)
Location
Blackwood Recreation Reserve, Recreation Reserve Road, Blackwood VIC 3458
Access
Unrestricted
Significances
  • Other scientific (Scientific)
  • Location/Context (Social)
  • Landscape (Social)
  • Landmark (Social)
  • Person/Group/Institution (Historic)
Date of measurement
01 Jan 1989
Date of classification
08 Dec 2014

Statement of Significance

The Monterey Pine at the Blackwood Recreation Reserve is an enormous tree. There is some uncertainty as to when and by whom the tree was planted. The area was originally a billabong and later a Chinese market garden. Mr Roy Terrill, whose family own the adjacent farm, remembers his father, Mr Ernest Terrill and his uncles talking about levelling and preparing the ground. He guessed that was some 100 years ago. The perimeter was then planted with various conifers, five or six of which still remain, including this pine.