Unsure what species we're looking at here, but it's Silver Dollar Gum-esque, with smoother mottled bark, slightly more elongate leaves and these rayed anenome flowers that burst from their glossy little cups in the middle of winter.
Many Eucalypts are incredibly beautiful, though they are hardly recognised as such in New Zealand where they are regarded as an 'introduced' group, viewed more as a timber prospect and windbreak than appreciated for their innumerable aesthetic and environmental merits. Pearls before swine. Hardly anyone knows they were in fact native here until very recently, though you can guess this quite readily from both their obvious affiliation to much of our endemic flora and our native birds' response to the flowers, which verges on rapture.
Without Eucalypts, I very much doubt our populations of Tuis and Bellbirds would have recovered to their current extent. Wish people would consider that before poisoning and felling them just for the hell of it.
The Lovely R took these. He's a good boy.
Without Eucalypts, I very much doubt our populations of Tuis and Bellbirds would have recovered to their current extent. Wish people would consider that before poisoning and felling them just for the hell of it.
The Lovely R took these. He's a good boy.
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