Tuesday 1 September 2015

Plants of the Wet Tropics - more from North Queensland: Paperbark, palms, curtain fig tree

This is a giant red paperbark, botanical gardens Cairns. The point of the boardwalk, we discovered, is to stop the leeches which do lurk everywhere in a rainforest.
Paperbark


Strange lack of roots. Eaten away?







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