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The Old Gum Tree (also known as The Proclamation Tree) is a historic site in Glenelg North, South Australia. Near this tree on 28 December 1836, the British governor John Hindmarsh delivered the proclamation announcing the establishment of Government of the colony of South Australia .
Location in South Australia Spirit of endurance or 'The Cazneaux Tree', 1937 Cazneaux Tree in 2013 Interpretive sign for the Cazneaux Tree, in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park The Cazneaux Tree , also known as Cazneaux's Tree , is a Eucalyptus camaldulensis or river red gum that was made famous by the photographer Harold Cazneaux .
The southern part of the settlement was occupied first and was originally known as Lone Gum after a prominent local landmark, a River Red Gum tree (Eucalyptus camaldulensis). The tree still stands today, although it was nearly destroyed in a fire caused by a local land owner. The tree's image is used on the Monash Primary School emblem.
Eucalyptus signata is a species of evergreen tree native to eastern Australia. It is one of many trees known as the Scribbly Gum. The habitat is dry sclerophyll forests or swampy areas at low altitude. Occurring from Morisset, New South Wales up the coast and ranges to beyond the Queensland border.
The name was approved by the Surveyor General of South Australia on 18 August 2009 and is derived from a gully called Gum Tree Gully whose extent includes the conservation park. [1] [5] As of 2018, it covered an area of 1.11 square kilometres (0.43 sq mi). [4]
Difficulties in finding work and financial hardship helped to build a sense of mateship and mutual support amongst sections of them. In 1887 the Central Queensland Carriers Union was formed, and discussions leading up to this are said to have been held under the gum tree which provided shade where carriers waited at the front of the railway ...
A large mountain blue gum tree measuring 65 metres (213 ft) high with a trunk 6 metres (20 ft) in circumference grows in the Blue Gum Forest. Being over 600 years old, it is a local landmark for bushwalkers. [4] Because of the effects of trampling, camping is permitted at nearby Acacia Flat, not in the Blue Gum Forest itself. [5]
Corymbia ficifolia, commonly known as red flowering gum, [2] is a species of small tree that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, egg-shaped to broadly lance-shape adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, bright red, pink or orange flowers and urn-shaped fruit.