P.O. Box 577 Denmark WA 6333 Ph 98483310 the Gondwana Garden

P.O. Box 577 Denmark WA 6333 ph 98483310

The Gondwana Garden at the Denmark Sanctuary- Flora Species of Interest Name Scientific Notes and Weblink Photo Name Flora Wollemii Wollemia Ancient rainforest genus of Gondwana land nobilis affinities Pine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollemia

Bunya Araucaria Ancient rainforest genus of Gondwana land bidwillli affinities Bunya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_bidwillii Pine

Hoop Pine Araucaria Ancient rainforest genus of Gondwana land cunninghamii affinities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_cunning hamii

Norfolk Araucaria Ancient rainforest genus of Gondwana land heterophylla affinities Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_heterop Pine hylla

Queensland Agathis Ancient rainforest genus of Gondwana land Kauri robusta affinities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_robusta

Emu Bush Podocarpus This is a species of podocarp native to the drouynianus relatively high rainfall south-western corner /Wild Plum of Western Australia, where it is known by the name Wild Plum, although it is not a true plum. It grows around creeks in sandy or gravelly soil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podocarpus_drouy nianus

Zamia Macrozamia Found on lateritic soils and in Jarrah forests, it riedlei is endemic to Western Australia. The nuts from Cycad this plant have been successfully used as food by Indigenous Australians - however eaten raw by European explorers incurred poisoning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrozamia_riedle i Picture by Stan Shebs - Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macrozamia _riedlei_1.jpg#/media/File:Macrozamia_riedlei_1.jpg

Fire Stenocarpus Firewheel Tree is an Australian rainforest tree in sinuatus the Protea family. Other common names include wheel White Beefwood, Queensland Firewheel Tree, Tulip Flower, White Oak and White Silky Oak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenocarpus_sinuat us Southern Nothofagus The myrtle beech is an evergreen tree native Myrtle cunninghamii to Victoria and Tasmania, Australia. It grows (Lophozonia mainly in the temperate rainforests. Ancient Beech cunninghamii) rainforest genus of Gondwana land affinities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophozonia_cunnin ghamii

Lemon Backhousia A flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, myrtle citriodora genus Backhousia. It is endemic to subtropical rainforests of central and south- eastern Queensland. (Picture from Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhousia_citriodora Granite Taxandria A species that grows on shallow soils on granite marginata outcrops in the south west corner of Western Taxandria Australia. This is planted on the Sanctuary roof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxandria_margina ta

Sculptures of Fauna Linked to Gondwana Land times Name of Scientific Notes Photo Animal represented Name by Sculpture Ozraptor Ozraptor Sculpture by Fred Pearce. The holotype of this subotaii species, UWA 82469, was found from layers of the Colalura Sandstone Formation, in WA, about 170 million years old. It consists of the distal or lower end of a left tibia. Together with Rhoetosaurus, Ozraptor belongs to the oldest known Australian dinosaurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozraptor

Mihirung Dromornis Sculpture by Noelene Berndt. Dromornis are part of a stirtoni family of giant birds called Dromornithidae that lived Bird / from 8 million years ago until less than 30,000 years ago. Thunder Dromornis lived in Australia from the late Miocene to the early Pliocene. Bird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromornis

Triceratops Triceratops Sculpture by Pete Mather. Herbivorous dinosaur from sp. about 68 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triceratopsb

Diprotodo Diprotodon Sculpture by Phil Brenton. This is the largest marsupial ever to have lived. Along with many n/ Giant other members of a group of unusual species Wombat collectively called the "Australian megafauna", it existed from approximately 1.6 million years ago until extinction some 46,000 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diprotodon

Crocodile Crocodylidae Sculpture by Noel assisted by Phil Brenton. They first separated from other crocodilians during the Eocene epoch, about 55 million years ago. Many species are at the risk of extinction, some being classified as critically endangered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile

Ant Formicate Sculpture by Fred Pearce. Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicate /fɔrˈmɪsɨdiː/ and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant