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'By the time that Europeans became acquainted with the bunya, the gum tree was already well established as the iconic Australian tree. The genus Eucalyptus, with all its locally specific variants, was both distinctive to the continent and widely dispersed throughout it. In contrast, the bunya tree (classified as Araucaria bidwillii in 1843) grew in a small area of what is now South-East Queensland and was seen by few Europeans before the 1840s, when Moreton Bay was opened to free settlement. The physical distinctiveness of the bunya tree, and stories of the large gatherings which accompanied the triennial harvesting ofits nut, aroused the curiosity of early European explorers and settlers, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the bunya tree achieved a special status in local civic culture. Although heavy logging had largely destroyed the great bunya forests, the tree was planted extensively in school grounds, around war memorials and in long avenues in parks.' (Introduction)
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Encounters with Trees : A Life with Leaves in the Brisbane Suburbs
2012
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— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 19 no. 2 2012; (p. 173-177)
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Encounters with Trees : A Life with Leaves in the Brisbane Suburbs
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Queensland Review , December vol. 19 no. 2 2012; (p. 173-177)
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Subjects:
- The Two Visions, or, The Contrast : An Australian Story 1874 single work poetry
- Policy and Passion : A Novel of Australian Life 1881 single work novel
- Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land : A Story of Australian Life 1915 single work novel
- My Australian Girlhood : Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life 1902 single work autobiography
- Outlaw and Lawmaker 1893 single work novel
- The Feast of the Bunya : An Aboriginal Ballad 1901 single work poetry
- Southern Saga 1940 single work novel
- Queensland,
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