#sheoak

Looking forward to Djeran.

Raindrops on Casuarina sp.

Sky Edwards

2022

Ricoh XR-10

Described and named by German Botanist Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels in 1904. Diels collected extensively in Papua, Australia, Equador, but his entire collection including many holotypes was destroyed in an air raid in 1943.

Widespread in SW Western Australia, growing in sandplains.

Wood magic wand

Sheoak and ovangkol wood, with aged brass details and rosewood pommel

the condition of the country, the growth of the trees and bushes, such as sheoaks, pines, and acacias and a score of other kinds of trees that bushfires always destroy were, when the white man arrived, flourishing in the perfection of beauty and health . . . Encounter Bay [SA] and neighbourhood was a striking example of the care exercised by the original inhabitants to preserve the plant life, and incidentally the animal life. The country was clothed with beauty to the very margin of the sea. The numerous ti-tree swamps were a very aviary of bird life. Much of this is gone now by the white man's destroying hand in the march of civilisation . . . I think it may be stated to the credit of the Australian savage that such [management] was the case over most of the continent when the white man assumed possession.⁴

4. Simpson Newland, 'Annual Address', Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, 22, 1921, p. 3.