#callitris

AKA white cypress-pine, Murray River cypress-pine, and northern cypress-pine.

Another native cypress. Some authors split it into three species - Callitris columellaris on coastal northeast New South Wales, southeast Queensland, Callitris glaucophylla throughout most of the southern half of Australia, and Callitris intratropica in northern Queensland, northern Northern Territory, northern Western Australia. C. columellaris, assuming it's a legitimate species or even subspecies, is naturalised in Hawaii and Florida.

Pollen release is explosive - hundreds of cones cracking open at once, and spraying the brown pollen up to a meter as the entire tree trembles.

AKA Marro, Murray pine, maroong, southern cypress pine, and slender cypress pine.

Endemic to Rottnest and Garden Islands off the Perth coastline, and parts of the Swan Coastal Plain, but widely planted as an ornamental and windbreak across the SW of Australia, so it now has a much larger if scattered distribution.

It can grow to about 9m in height, but on the islands, or the coast as here, it's usually wind-pruned to a much shorter maximum height.