#wollemi

There's three translocation sites where wollemi pines have been planted out in the blue mountains. Extremely cool.

Days 1, 2: prompt: carried, under the weather; TW: captivity, torture, escape, hidden injury, infection, blood, wound, unconsciousness

Day 3: prompt: stranded; TW: betrayal, head injury, stranded

Day 4: prompt: at weapon's point; TW: kidnapping, restraints, threat of torture

Day 5: prompt: caught; TW: threat of torture, restraint, captivity

Day 6: prompt: addicted; TW: captivity, drugging, creepy/intimate whumper

Day 7: prompt: heat; TW: captivity, restraints, torture

Day 8: prompt: took a tumble; TW: head injury, hurt/comfort

Day 9: prompt: interrogation; TW: captivity, restraints, torture, defiant whumpee

Day 10: prompt: restraints; TW: captivity, restraints, torture, forced to watch, unclear character status

Day 11: prompt: out of it; TW: poison, blood from the mouth, unconsciousness

Day 12 : prompt: accident; TW: captivity, restraints, strangulation, broken bones, mcd, creepy/intimate whumper

Day 13 : prompt: rescue; TW: captivity, restraints torture, rescue

Day 14: prompt: field medicine; TW: blood, wounds, shrapnel, explosion, injury, field medicine, unconsciousness

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WOLLEMI PINE Wollemia nobilis

The Wollemi pine can grow to more than 130 feet tall, lush but with a trunk that is covered with soft, brown nodules that have been described as looking like both “chocolate crackles” and “rabbit feces.” It is an “exceedingly long-lived” tree, according to the Australian government; the oldest known Wollemi fossil is 90 million years old, but scientists think the species has existed since the Jurassic period, some 200 million years ago.

Once widespread across Australia, Wollemi pines reached their peak abundance some 34 to 65 million years ago. As Australia drifted northward and its climate cooled and dried, the trees began a steady decline; today, just 200 Wollemi pines grow on the northwestern outskirts of Sydney, in a deep, remote gorge bounded by steep sandstone cliffs.

When the Gospers Mountain Fire, a “mega-blaze” that has been burning since October, began encroaching on the trees, air tankers dropped fire retardant onto the threatened area, and specialist firefighters were winched down to the site from helicopters to set up an irrigation system that would increase moisture on the ground. When the flames got close, firefighters were lowered into the area once again to operate the irrigation system. Helicopters bucketed water onto the edge of the fire in the hope of reducing its impact on the pines.