Botanical Gardens
Among the Trees: Exploring the Atherton Arboretum
4 min readJan 18, 2021
Rare and unusual trees from tropical Queensland
In 1971, forestry ranger Vic Stockwell hiked into the rainforest on Mount Bartle Frere, Far North Queensland, to investigate a stand of trees that had looked intriguing in an aerial photograph. When he arrived at the site on the western flanks of the mountain, he found huge…
