GEOGRAPHE COMMUNITY LANDCARE NURSERY
366 Queen Elizabeth Avenue, Busselton [2km south of Busselton Bypass on the right]
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| | SPECIES Photos and information about the species we grow,
and perhaps about a few we might like to grow in the future FAMILY | MYRTACEAE |
| Nursery List | Scientific name | Corymbia calophylla
syn.
Eucalyptus calophylla
| Common name | Marri
Red Gum
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There is an article about the family Myrtaceae on Florabase here.
A note on the Myrtaceae family in the Wikipedia. | A Florabase article on the genus Corymbia here.
A note on Corymbia in the Wikipedia.
There are about 113 species in the genus.
A Wikipedia page on Corymbia calophylla.
An interesting profile in Australian Plants Online.
Marri in another APO article (Margaret Moir).
Marri on the WA Forest Holidays website, also excellent for a range of flora, fauna and birds of the forest.
| A page on the Third edition (October 2006) of the CD ROM EUCLID Eucalypts of Australia.
CSIRO page on EUCLID.
The Eucalypt Page of the
Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants (ASGAP).
ASGAP Eucalyptus Study Group
EucaLink
The Water Corporation hosts a site Cockatoo Care dedicated to the cockatoos of Western Australia.
Perth Zoo Cockatoo Exhibit.
May Gibbs page on the Wikipedia.
| Horticultural note: The Marri tree is a very significant species of our area, but also a much larger area that ranges from Geraldton in the north, south to the Albany district, and inland to the Narrogin district. Apart from providing food and habitat for indigenous fauna, and shade for farm animals, it has been utlised as a furniture and honey species, in aboriginal and bush medicine, for tanning and dyeing (the 'gum', Marri kino), and more controversially for woodchips. Perhaps because the wood was found to be not suitable for railway sleepers, being susceptible to termites, Marri areas were saved the indignity handed out to other trees like Jarrah and Wandoo.
| Irene Cunningham's The Trees That Were Nature's Gift (self-published, 1998) has a wonderful profile on the Marri and also many other Western Australian trees. Unfortunately, the book is now out of print. Most of Irene's tree profiles were printed in The West Australian. Available in the Busselton Library.
| References:
FloraBase
MABBERLEY, D.J. (1987/1997) The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press.
WHEELER, J. et al (2002) Flora of the South West – Bunbury/Augusta/Denmark, Australian Biological Resources Study, University of Western Australia Press.
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