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Level of Significance

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Age (approx)

?yrs

Trees

500

Diameter

0.3m

Height - 8m

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Details

Common name
Bull Mallee
Botanical name
Eucalyptus behriana
Type
Stand
Condition
Poor
Municipality
Moorabool (VIC)
Location
Long Forest Road, Long Forest VIC 3340
Access
Unrestricted
Significances
  • Horicultural/Genetic (Scientific)
Date of measurement
06 May 2011
Date of classification
28 Apr 1983

Statement of Significance

This disjunct Mallee community, dominated by the Bull Mallee <EM>(Eucalyptus behriana</EM>), is the only true southern Australian Mallee known to grow anywhere in Australia east of the Great Dividing Range. The nearest Mallee communities are some 180 km north west. The existence of this vegetation so distant from all other Mallee communities is of exceptional interest as it throws light on the patterns of vegetation across southern Australia.<BR>The stand is approximately 2048 ha.and is surrounded and buffered by low woodland, comprised of Red Box<EM>,(E. polyanthemos)</EM> Grey Box (<I>E. moluccana)</I>and Yellow Gum.(<EM>E. leucoxylon</EM>), Specimens were collected by Mueller from this area. and the area is classified by the National Trust Landscape Register.<BR>The stand is located on Long Forest Road, north and south of the Western Highway alongside Djerriwarrah Creek.