Mt. Victoria flora.

[Buddy]

There is, I am informed, on Mt Victoria, an unusual form of myrtle i.e. Nothofagus cunninghamii. It's leaves are quite glaucous, or blue-green. Has anyone discovered this whilst on the mountain? Being somewhat of a Nothofagus tragic, I am keen to get it growing in my collection. Cheers.

[walkinTas]

A Nothfagus tragic eh! Twenty + years ago AFH obtained a heap of seed from Chile. There should be some mixed forest up around Talbot's Lagoon area.

[Buddy]

Have all Chilean species in the garden. That's very interesting info. though. Same goes for Raminea in the south. FT did a big planting there years ago.

[walkinTas]

It may even be the same seed. We tended to share things like that and I know we got quite a bit of seed. I planted a small collection in Dads garden. Some wonderful autumn colours amongst them.

[Steve]

A New Hybrid Nothofagus
Gillanders, K.
PLANTSMAN -LONDON-
2008, VOL 7; PART 1, pages 55-57

This paper describes an interesting hybrid (Nothofagus x eugenananus hybr. nov.) that has appeared in cultivation in Tasmania. It is between Nothofagus alessandri, a deciduous Chilean endemic, and an evergreen species in the Fusca pollen group, almost certainly N. fusca.

[Buddy]

Yep, got that one too! A stunning plant. Mine's about 3.5 metres now and partly deciduous.