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Level of Significance

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Age

?yrs

Trees

1

Diameter

2m

Height - 40m

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Details

Common name
Radiata Pine, Monterey Pine
Botanical name
Pinus radiata
Type
Specimen
Condition
Poor
Municipality
Hepburn (VIC)
Location
Wombat Park, Midland Highway, Daylesford VIC 3460
Access
Unrestricted
Significances
  • Outstanding size (Scientific)
  • Landscape (Social)
  • Park/Garden/Town (Historic)
Date of measurement
25 Jun 2007
Date of classification
03 Oct 2007

Statement of Significance

These three Pinus radiata are growing in the private garden of Wombat Park Estate and are probably some of the oldest specimens of this species in the State, with the largest known girths. The garden is of horticultural and historic significance itself and contains some of the oldest cultivated trees in the district.<BR>The garden was first planted in the early 1850s and continuously developed throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. <BR>Both the house and the garden are classified of State Significance