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Introducing the Bunya Pine – A Noble Denizen of the Scrub

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

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But what am I to say of the Bunya-Bunya brush? About this majestic tree whose trunk looks like a pillar supporting the vault of Heaven?

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Special Issue: On The Bunya Trail
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