Botanical name Emmenosperma alphitonioides
A common name Yellow Ash
Seedling
I have never actually seen what I might recognise as a Yellow Ash seedling yet, I've only seen them as young plants, .5 to 1.5 metres tall.
Young plant
Juvenile
This is the same tree perhaps 3 years later, having been protected from being eaten until the trunk was strong enough not be bent over. The wiggles are just about all gone.
Reasonably mature
No photo yet.
Sassafras
This is a good example of a rainforest plant struggling on. When I found this one it may have been .5 of a metre tall with 6 leaves at the top of the skinny crooked little trunk. I had walked within 2 metres of it dozens of times before I saw it. The local habitat was Privett, both Small and Large leaf with a low coverstorey of Acacia melanoxylon perhaps 15 metres up.
Each one of the zigs and zags in the photo below may have been just one flush of growth, these are a tasty plant and shoots don't last very long below browse height.
The wallabies also seem to like young tender small leaf privett too, plenty of that. Just not many rainforest seedlings in this area. In other better vegetated areas I don't bother caging.
Emenosperma alphitonioides is also prone to attack by borers. The dead wood to the lower right of the healthy new growth used to be the main trunk, the lower of the two photos shows the sad condition of the trunk, though the tree is healthy now.
