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Level of Significance

  • File
  • Local
  • Regional
  • State
  • National

Age

125yrs

Trees

1

Diameter

0.6m

Height - 12m

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Details

Common name
Flame Tree
Botanical name
Brachychiton acerifolius
Type
Individual Tree
Condition
Good
Municipality
Corangamite (VIC)
Location
34 Gnotuk Lane Camperdown VIC 3260
Access
Restricted
Significances
  • Outstanding size (Scientific)
  • Outstanding species (Scientific)
  • Landscape (Social)
  • Park/Garden/Town (Historic)
Date of germination
01 Jan 1900
Date of measurement
23 Apr 2015
Date of classification
26 Jul 2017

Statement of Significance

This Illawarra Flame Tree is significant for aesthetic, historic and scientific reasons at State level. This tree is outstanding for its large height at 12 metres and its canopy spread of 8-9 metres. It is an outstanding example of the species. This tree occurs in the Gnotuk garden, and provides a contribution to this historic landscape.

Location

Gnotuk House is of local historic and aesthetic significance in the Corangamite Shire. The first plantings at Gnotuk were in the early 1860s, at the site of the original stone farmhouse. At that time the 7,700 acre property was at the eastern edge of the vast Glenormiston sheep run of Niel Black, an influential pioneer of the Western District. His nephew Archie built the first Gnotuk. According to Niel Black’s diary, the early garden was laid out in July 1862 by Daniel Bunce, a self-taught botanist and first curator of the Botanic Gardens at Geelong. The oldest trees at Gnotuk include Illawarra Flame tree, Moreton Bay Fig, Norfolk Island Pines, Cooks Pine, New Zealand Kauri, Norfolk Island Hibiscus and Italian Cypress.