Australia is home to the world’s tallest flowering plant, which are the mountain ash trees found in Victoria and Tasmania. The mountain ash can grow over 110 meters tall and up to 34 meter in girth. Only the giant Redwood trees in California are taller but they are not considered flowering plants since they are conifer trees. Redwood trees also grow much slower than a mountain ash. Redwoods reach their maximum height in 1,200 years while mountain ash can reach their maximum height in as little as 250 years.
Here are some pictures of these mountain ash trees near Heallsville, Victoria:
Here is a picture of me standing in front of a mountain ash tree in Victoria’s Great Otway Ranges:
As you can see these trees can get very thick if they are old growth but even the younger ones grow to extremely tall heights without being to thick, which is what makes them the world’s tallest flowering tree.
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[...] Rest trail takes visitors through is a beautiful collection of ferns, myrtle beech trees, and monstrous mountain ash trees that are over 300 years old. The trail is named after Maitland Bryan who was the area’s [...]
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[...] has plenty of unique plant life such as the world’s tallest flowering plants plus unusual mammals such as the world’s only monotremes, and extremly interesting reptiles, [...]
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[...] to be reached in at least under an hour and provides a convenient getaway into the famous giant mountain ashes only found in the southern Victorian Alps and Tasmania. The Dandenongs are filled with bed and [...]
11:30 am on July 17th, 2008 4
[...] impressive. However they are not the biggest trees I have seen in Australia though because the mountain ash trees I saw at Mait’s Rest in the Otway [...]
9:32 am on July 18th, 2008 5
[...] the climatic conditions are such that eucalyptus trees have grown to such proportions that the mountain ash is considered the world’s largest flowering [...]
11:43 am on July 24th, 2008 6
[...] impressive. However they are not the biggest trees I have seen in Australia though because the mountain ash trees I saw at Mait’s Rest in the Otway [...]
10:26 pm on January 1st, 2009 7
[...] in the area are extremely thick. The picture below is of a road in the area that surrounded by the giant mountain ash trees that grow all over this [...]