Botanical name Schizomeria ovata
A common name White Birch
Seedling
Young plant
Juvenile
I wondered what this one was for quite a
while. Then the wattles shading it got twisted around themselves and
broken during a storm. Then the leaves on this sapling got sunburnt during a 40 degree plus
Summer day, then they put out a flush of bright red growth. That's when I made the connection with the more mature tree a hundred or so metres away.
Reasonably mature
A more mature specimen, maybe a
hundred metres from the young one above. Scars from shed stipules are
visible. Unfortunately the photo is a bit washed out, I used a flash,
not having a tripod at the time. Exposures without a flash under the canopy are always
slow.
New shoots on Schizomeria ovata are quite vivid, on the top of a tree from a distance it looks like the tree is in flower.
On the right is the trunk from a smaller spreading Schizomeria Ovata tree.
This tree is at least couple of hundred metres from the other 2 pictured above.
