Acacia paradoxa has a broad SE Australian distribution, occurs across starkly different habitats, and has remarkably variable morphology. Here is a photo snapshot of some of the diversity captured during my honours field work.
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Meet The World’s Most ‘Safeguarded’ Tree—A Jurassic Survivor Thought Extinct Until 1994 The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age of dinosaurs.

Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis)
Closely protected, a handful of this conifer species (part of the 200 million year-old Araucariaceae family) was discovered in 1994 New South Wales (AUS). Like finding a dinosaur.

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