Showing posts with label Crommelin Arboretum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crommelin Arboretum. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2008

Central Coast Field Trip: the Crommelin Arboretum

Adjoining the Research Station where we stayed on the field trip is the Crommelin Arboretum, around 6 hectares of natural and cultivated native bushland, rainforest and wetland. It's a very peaceful place....

Crommelin Arboretum 1


Crommelin Arboretum  2
An old and well-established Xanthorrhoea
species, with a flower spike and blackened trunk.


Eustrephus latifolius
Eustrephus latifolius. Unusually for a climber, it's a
monocot. Both the berries and tubers are edible.