Pine Lake

Pine Lake is home to Pencil Pine.














Type: walk

Length: 30 minutes return

Difficulty: easy

Highlights: large amount of Pencil Pine

Location: Great Western Tiers, Tasmania, Australia

How to get there

 

Take the Lake Highway, the walk is between Great Lake and Projection Bluff.

Pine Lake

Platypus Tarn

Platypus Tarn is a tarn next to Lake Seal.














 Type: walk

Length: 30 minutes return

Difficulty: Moderate

Highlights: Tarn and forest

Location: Mt Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia

How to get there

Enter the park on the B61. Once you are in the national park drive on the road going up the mountain. The track to the tarn is pass Lake Dobson and just past Eagle Tarn.

Sub-Alpine Woodland with Tasmanian Yellow Gum

Snow

Tasmanian Alpine and Sub-Alpine Plants

Tasmania has a beautiful, unique, and rich alpine flora, with over 60% of all species being found in the state, and not anywhere else on Earth.

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 Pandani (Richea Pandanifolia)

 

The Pandami is only found in Tasmania, it is also the largest heath plant in the world. It grows both in rainforest and in sub-alpine environments.

Pandani at Hartz Mountains National Park

 

Tasmanian Snow Gum (Eucalyptus coccifera)

 

Tasmanian Snow Gum range from the southern mountains to around Great Lake. It can be found in Hartz Mountains, Mt Field, and on Mt Wellington.

Tasmanian Snow Gum at Hartz Mountains National Park

Info

 

Pineapple Grass (Astelia alpina)

 

 Alpine grasslands in Tasmania are rare, this species is often found in moorlands, and i never seen a Pineapple Grass grassland. The genus also has tropical species.

Pineapple Grass at Hartz Mountains National Park

 

Alpine Coral-fern (Gleichenia alpina)

The Alpine Coral-fern is found at Hartz Mountains National Park

 

 

Some other species:

Tasmanian Yellow Gum

Pencil Pine

King Billy Pine

Fagus

Alpine Coral-fern (Gleichenia alpina)

Spreeading Rope Rush (Empodisma minus)

Carpha alpina

Sprengelia incarata

 

 

I will likely update this post over time.