Tall Trees
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When European settlers first penetrated the tall, lush mountain ash forests of Victoria, they were amazed to find exceedingly tall eucalypts with very straight trunks; some of them branchless for...
  • The regrowth trees that are among the tallest in the state are found in ideal conditions, usually at a low altitude, near a protected gully, and a permanent stream.
  • The tallest regrowth tree reached 92.4m before being killed by bushfires.
  • After the bushfires, there is now a sea of 10-15m tall regrowth trees under towering dead trunks.
  • Some of the tallest trees in a patch of tall forest near Beenak exceed 80m in height.
  • The tallest living trees in Victoria are a combination of older trees and those that began their lives following fires in the 1920s and 1930s.