Memorial trees

Best & fairest - big old wilga TinT with scarred reverse TB

significant spiritual scarring on wilga TinT in Telinebone

This is where the wilga guest emerges from bimblebox host

Remember this is one tree photographed from different angles

The Gomeroi of Murrumanaarr created this astounding tree

Less than 1 K away is another TinT also scarred

This is a Bumble aka Wild orange TinT but the box host is dead

This is the scar on the host & it wont close as the box tree is dead

You can see both the scar & the guest Bumble in this photo

This Capparis mitchellii guest is old but bigger as it's host is dead

Another TinT that is also a scartree - The scar is almost closed

you can see an axe cut burl here showing the box scar is cultural

Guest emerges at chest height & is 58 cm around. The host 220cm

currant bush guest aka warrior bush aka Apophyllum anomalum

This is the most spectacular rosewood TinT Ive seen

There are deep old coolamons all around the box tree base

This very special tree lives in the neighbor's place on a sandhill ...

The sandhill is on the big warrambool which was the tribal boundary

between the Gomeroi & Euahlayi people with kinship/cultural ties

This tree is both a currant bush TinT and a Ringtree.

It lives on another neighbor's place and there is a well nearby

Ringtrees here show where water can be found

The well is in the sandhills & can still be clearly seen today.

The Gomeroi here liked to camp in sandy places with water

This currant bush TinT is also a Ringtree and is found at a billabong

this billabong is on a watercourse running into the warrambool

There are 2 other Ringtrees here but no more TinTs

This is the inosculation point where the branches were tied together to form a ring

Currant bush aka Warrior bush is the host for the caper butterfly

This big scarred box tree also lives on a neighboring property

The guest shown here is Pimelea microcephala.

other shrubs were planted in trees as well like Nepine & Saltbush

Shrubby rice flower has antibacterial properties so was highly valued

Pimelea microcephala was used to treat respiratory conditions

This bumble guest is growing in the bottom of a U shaped box tree.

The old U shaped box tree has a big scar on the southern trunk

I have made this new gallery for scarred TinTs like these so people ...

..will stop trying to tell me that birds were responsible for them !

This is one of the first scarred Trees in Trees I found.

The scar is shrinking over time & the guest wilga tree is growing

This tree is located on the new Priest paddock tank/ dam

Old Ted Fields watched the earthworks to make sure no CMTs were hurt

This special spiritual place has very special spiritual trees like this

This guest tree has died but I think it was a rosewood aka boonery

It makes a pair of TinTs with the other being a whitewood in dead box

I dont know the significance of the different guests species

but TinTs are often found in pairs. Different trees belonged to different totem groups

you can read all about the Euahlayi totems in Katie Langloh Parker's book

This is one of my favourite wilga TinTs & its also scarred

The wilga guest is quite inconspicuous. The box tree host is older than it looks

You can park in the shade of this TinT & never notice its 2 in 1

Unlike Peach bush, wilga do not sucker. This guest was PLANTED

This scarred wilga TinT is about 1 k away from the scarred bumble TinT

This big old dead box tree has an old peach bush growing out of it

the peach tree isnt looking too hot either!

there are 2 deep axe cuts in the trunk below the guest/ host junction

this doesnt prove the Gomeroi ancestors put the seed/ seedling there

but it does prove they were up there ...

the problem with peach bush guests is that they sucker rampantly

this scarred tree has peach bush growing out of it everywhere

so its hard to say if it was planted or suckered there

this scarred tree has 2 different guests, both are vines

one is the gargaloo - Parsonsia eucalyphylla aka gugumadharraa

the other is Nepine aka ngaybaan or Capparis lasiantha

now this is an interesting tree out in Warrambool paddock

another U-bend box- 1 half scarred & the other half a TinT

this is the guest-currant bush aka wayaarra or Apophyllum anomalum

and this is where it lives- Ive seen currant bush layered into trees

this old box tree lives on a neighboring property & is stunning

beside the big old scar grows a small tree-dont be fooled by its size

I think its a rosewood but could be a wilga or butterbush - V.old

here is another peach bush infested scarred box next door

again its not clear if the peach bush was planted or suckered there

There must be both a cultural & botanical reason for this

just need some Indig. & academic support to find the answers ????

Ive known this CMTinT for a long time. The host is poisoned

as you can see this big old box tree host is multiscarred

the guest here is rosewood aka boonery or Alectryon oleifolius

Im guessing the dead host is a bimblebox because its red soil

this combo is interesting because the scar is cut with a steel axe

the guest is gargaloo which is supposed to be poisonous

many of the camps here have lots of gargaloo growing

so it must have been useful/ important. Needs research ???

sadly this lovely old CMTinT is dead & lost forever.

I dont have the GPS data for this & its on a neighbor's property

Ive also lost this supplejack growing in big double scarred box

This quinine in the scarred box has died in the last 10 years

I think it suffered from too little light beside the big old fire box

how it grew & why it died-Google new research into 'wood wide web'

I suspect many TinTs have failed over the years ...

This is a smallish bumble living in a scarred coolabah

this type of scar is also found on ringbarked coolabahs

any damage causes scarring & the 1880's ringbarking often failed

Gomeroi here would still be practicing their culture in the 1880s

this box tree coolamon has peach bush growing up through it

I dont think the peach bush was planted rather it suckered its way in

peach bush aka Ehretia saligna is a very important cultural tree

all the old gomeroi camps are sheltered/ protected by peach bush

here is another peach bush CMTinT on Wailwun land

this peach bush was planted here in the this closed up scar

this Wailwun camp in a black box swamp about 10 ks from Cuddie springs

there are no sandhills there but the swamp centre is sandy

here is another CMTinT from the same swamp but the guest is wilga

again the scar looks like a failed ringbarking attempt?

there are over a dozen wilga TinTs in the swamp around this camp.

this shield shaped coolamon has 2 guests growing in the base

the guests are wilga & Nepine or possibly a small bumble?

Capparis mitchelli or Capparis lasiantha? I think its a Nepine aka ngaybaan

possibly the only double guest CMTinT ?

This a small whitewood tree growing high up in a dead scarred box

this whitewood aka Atalaya hemiglauca is way older than it looks

you can see the scar is cultural because of the stone axe burls

whitewood guests live high up in their hosts - think the Indig. name is birraa?

This scarred coolabah on the Gingie rd songline looks like a CMTinT

but Jen thinks its just an unusually shaped mistletoe

Allo spotted this a few weeks ago - good eyes- not so good phone camera

this looks more like a coolabah branch then a guest tree

these leaves look like wild lime but there are coolabah leaves at the end of the branch

Russell Fairfax is a handy climber so we will get him to look next time they come

there are 2 guests - peach bush & nepine growing out of this scartree

the scarred trunk has broken off but is kept alive by 2 epicormic shoots

peach bush has suckered up through the edge of the scar

The peach bush guest was probably not planted inside this scartree

There are many TinTs around this camp on the billabong here in TB

recovering old peach bush guest in dead box at culvert camp TB

another peach bush CMTinT in near the billabong in Telinebone

Its not possible to know if peach bush was planted in this coolamon

Its possible these sloping coolamons were used for potty training?

Pimelea microcephala planted in big old scarred box

The stems of this shrub contains tough fibre for rope making.

new CMTinT at Avon near the old water catchment

the guest is a small rosewood aka Alectryon oleifolius

the rosewood guest doesnt get much sunlight so remains small

this camp is 100 mts or so from the catchment with the V.old coolabah

The natural water catchment was vital & is surrounded by ringtrees

This CMTinT is really a fake I think

I think the small peach bush guest has suckered its way into the scar

here you see the small peach bush next to big axtrax burl

the scar itself is magnificent like most Tungra scars

but I dont think the peach bush seed/ seedling was planted in it

This currant bush CMTinT is cultural but the scar is small

here is the currant bush guest growing a long way up in a dead stump

here is the small axe cut scar - seems like the box tree was marked

This is more likely a memorial tree in Tungra

believe it or not growing a tree in a solid non eucalypt is possible

in this case its a bumble aka Wild orange growing in a dead ironwood

they have cut a small coolmon out of the host to channel rain maybe?

the bumble roots must be down inside the divided ironwood trunk

like the wilga in ironwood in WB these guests are stressed & woody

ironwood is v.hard as the name suggests so this CMTinT shouldnt be possible

here we have a peach bush growing out of a double scarred box

the peach bush emerges from the smaller scar at a 45' angle

It is possible the peach bush suckered up into the host?

Its also possible it was grown there as a memorial !

the nearest peach bush is quite a distance away so Im with the memorial

There are simply too many CMTinTs to be flukes

this is another double scarred box with a currant bush guest.

there is a deep old standard type scar & a small scar where the currant bush emerges

I think they cut into the cambium to plant the current bush & left a scar

unfortunately this CMTinT is obscured by a big supplejack

If I had driven past the other side I would have missed the currant bush

not easy to photograph but not easy to forget either

This would have to be the most spectacular CMTinT Ive seen so far

Here you can see the scar on one side with the 2 mature guests hanging out the other

The big box host is dead & the rosewood guest has died back to its base

here is the rosewood reshoot - the big peach bush is thriving

here you see rosewood roots exposed suggesting the host crotch may have been bigger originally?

this is a closer view showing the scar & the trunk bases of the guests

another peach bush growing in a scarred box tree host

This peachbush guest could have suckered itself up thru the old box

This is a really weird CMTinT - 2 dead guests in a scarred box stump

you can see how the old scar has been cut to make a wooden pot

the epicormic shoots come either from the scar or wooden 'pot'

to complicate matters the 'pot' seems to cut with a steel axe

the bigger of the dead guests was a budda tree (Eremophila mitchellii)

the smaller guest has been dead longer & is hard to identify

this CMTinT has a Pimelea microcephala growing out of the scar top

Ive only noticed 2 P. microcephalas in Tungra - both living as guests in boxtrees

this is a memorial to some one important who has died years ago

the box host also has a long almost closed scar on the reverse side

Pimelea microcephala aka shrubby rice-flower is a powerful medicinal

This is a very significant spiritual tree its a shame no one is interested

This bumble in dead box in Tungra has multiple scars

Its among a group of 5 TinTs in the most southern paddock

the 5 TinTs are all old, all have different guests & all are within 100 mts

This is a very old camp & is undisturbed. There are no small TinTs