CMTinTs

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 scarred coolabah in Kraka may or may not be a TinT

Its certainly a culturally scarred coolabah on the Gingie rd songline

but is that a guest up there or just an unusual mistletoe?

Allo spotted this driving out last sunday - very good eyes- not so good phone camera