(ID required) Amazing tree near Cape York

[NBPCA]

Hi all,

Get a load of this! Any ideas what it is?

It is a Root in Rock style.

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Sent to me by GU.

Grant

[kcpoole]

Nice I have no idea what it might be.
Do you know where it is located?
Looks to me like on the Eastern side of the cape ( on a beach) around lockhart river.

Ken

[NBPCA]

Nice I have no idea what it might be.
Do you know where it is located?
Looks to me like on the Eastern side of the cape ( on a beach) around lockhart river.

Ken

More Info.

Subject: FW: a naturally occurring bonsai north of Lockhart river mission, north of the Daintree on east coast

We were staying at a lovely place called Chilly beach with coconut trees growing on the edge of the beach and a strong wind blew continually for the two days we were camped there. It was about 300 hundred kms from the tip of Cape York, opposite Weipa on the west coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

There right on the beach at the high tide (king tide) mark was this beautiful tree, root in rock (rather than over rock) and it was windswept as well. The rock was approx 1.7 metres tall and the top of the plant would have reached around 3 metres into the sky. The leaves were quite small, soft and thick. The roots went down inside the rock and came out in fissures further down the rock and also down on the sand. It had quite a bit of dead wood on it but otherwise it looked healthy. The main branches to the left and right were quite long, about 3 metres each. There was old looking bark on the trunk which had a diameter of about 55 cm. All photos were taken from the side that the wind was blowing. It is in a pretty remote part of Australia, I think a reserve owned by the indigenous people.
We were staying in an official camping ground. I have no idea what variety of tree it is and have no idea how old it is, but fear for its future if we have higher sea levels in the future.

[Hornet]

thats amazing, try emailing the qld herbarium, they have been very helpful with helping me with id's

[Pup]

Coming from that area it is probably one of the Neofabrica species, some of these have been mixed up with Melaleuca and Leptospermum species.

In the book I have it states there were only 3 varieties N mjoebergii, N,myrtifolia, and N sericisepala.

The shape of the leaves on described as oblanceolate, to narrow elliptical, the flowers are white or cream on mjoebergii, on myrtifolia yellow, on sericisepala they are yellow also.

I am just reading about them. They are suseptable to frosts onl one has been widely cultivated N, myrtifolia. There maybe some confusion with N, serecisepala at times. Both propigate well from seed and cuttings.

Neofabrica is in the Leptospermum suballiance.
I would like to know if I am right, cheers Pup

[Ash]

Its ID is unmistakable: Pemphis acidula, family Lythraceae. It is a very beautiful tree.

cheers
Ash

[Joel]

Ash is correct. They make some of the most incredible bonsai I have ever seen (photos of) outside of Japan.

Joel

[Tony Bebb]

New you would get that one Ash

Beautiful tree.

Tony

[kcpoole]

Nice I have no idea what it might be.
Do you know where it is located?
Looks to me like on the Eastern side of the cape ( on a beach) around lockhart river.

Ken

More Info.

Subject: FW: a naturally occurring bonsai north of Lockhart river mission, north of the Daintree on east coast

We were staying at a lovely place called Chilly beach with coconut trees growing on the edge of the beach and a strong wind blew continually for the two days we were camped there. It was about 300 hundred kms from the tip of Cape York, opposite Weipa on the west coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

We Stuff Me!
I have spent a few days myself Camped on that exact beach and no doubt have seen that tree but did not recognise it
Awesome Area if you get to go do so as it is wonderful too

Ken