Looking forward to checking out our scrub with you this Wednesday morning October 29th.
A hot day is forecast for our gathering so we will try to get out there a bit earlier than 9 am and stop for smoko at 10 am.
It will be nice to get outdoors for a while and see what Spring has brought to the scrub before we retreat indoors during the hot part of the day.
This year seems to be one of the driest we have had for a while.
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Scrub? Microphyll Vine Forest?
Where is Franke Scrub?
From Toowoomba, follow signs which take you north out of the city on the New England Highway towards Crows Nest. On reaching Highfields, (a little over 4 k from Blue Mountain Heights), turn left at the traffic lights into Cawdor Road. After approx. 1.6k, turn left into Cawdor Drive, then after approx. 2.2k, turn right into Franke Road. Continue off the end of the bitumen for several hundred metres. The dirt road is suitable for ordinary 2-wheel drive vehicles and there is room to park on the other side of the Scrub.
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Scrub? Microphyll Vine Forest?
About Franke Road remnant scrub
A council road reserve protected by legislation which prevents clearing of road reserves. It is a length of deep creek bed with a diverse flora of old-growth dry rainforest trees and shrubs including the threatened Tarenna tree Tarenna cameronii and uncommon Orangebark tree Maytenus disperma.
Euphorbiaceae and Sapindaceae dominate the vegetation.
As a good remnant of the dry rainforest scrub which covered a lot of this area before closer settlement, Crows Nest Council received Natural Heritage Trust funding for its protection in 2006.
Euphorbiaceae and Sapindaceae dominate the vegetation.
As a good remnant of the dry rainforest scrub which covered a lot of this area before closer settlement, Crows Nest Council received Natural Heritage Trust funding for its protection in 2006.
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Links
Further reading
Rainforest Trees and Shrubs A field guide for their identification by Harden, McDonald and Williams
Toowoomba Plants Natives of the Region suitable for Gardens by Patricia Gardner
Toowoomba Plants Natives of the Region suitable for Gardens by Patricia Gardner
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