On the mainland part of Australia, the only deciduous trees are European imports; all the gum trees (eucalypts) are stubbornly evergreen.
Tasmania, however, is home to Australia’s only autumnal leaf-dropper, Nothofagus gunnii, otherwise known as “fagus” for short, or the deciduous beech, or “tanglefoot” because of its dense impenetrable large-shrubbiness.
It grows in only a few alpine and […]
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