Eucalyptus aggregata

Black Gum at Watson, ACT

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Identification history

	Eucalyptus aggregata	23 May 2016	MichaelMulvaney
	Eucalyptus aggregata	18 May 2016	waltraud

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Trees of various age and size; photo taken of juvenile specimen; sorry for the quality. See also my comment, picture and map at http://canberranaturemap.org/Community/Sighting/3343054

9 comments

waltraud wrote:

19 May 2016

Recent id revealed E. aggregata.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

23 May 2016

Waltraud this was a common planting in the 1950s and 1960s in the Canberra area

waltraud wrote:

23 May 2016

Thanks Michael
are some about 20m tall E. aggregata, perhaps these were planted with the Blue gums some of which are quite big too.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

28 Jul 2016

Waltruad it should have clicked with me earlier, but Eucalyptus aggregata is a nationally threatened species, with only 16 plants known in the wild in the ACT, and a national population of about 10,000 mature trees. I know that between 1940 and 1980 the Yarralumla Nursery raised 13,000 Black Gum seedlings and it has been planted as a street tree in Lyneham, Phillip Kambah, Farrer, Mitchell and the ANU. However given that the Majura plantation is self seeding it is actually an example of a successful translocation of this threatened eucalypt. Pyor's and Bank's Street tree book suggests that the seed source for the Yarralumla Nursery plants (and hence probably the Majura plants) was probably from near Braidwood. Would be good to meet and map full Majura population

waltraud wrote:

28 Jul 2016

Michael
I think they are restricted to the gully line south of Valour park.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

28 Jul 2016

Thanks Waltraud will have a look when I'm next out that way, I'm thinking of nominating the stand to the ACT Tree Register.

waltraud wrote:

17 May 2023

Hi Michael
we see recruitment at The Fair project site which I tend to remove.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

17 May 2023

An interesting one - I would be inclined to not remove the seedlings given the local and rare status of the plant even if it was introduced to the location @EmmaCook do you have a view?

waltraud wrote:

18 May 2023

Thanks Michael
I haven't heard from Emma as yet; so far senior ranger, Canberra Nature Park, and Tapirlord, CNM suggest not removing the recruits.

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