Monday, February 5, 2024

[Man From Ironbark]

Thanks Dave. It would appear that you haven't dug too many holes deeper than a foot.
Huge Jacaranda is something I've seen a lot of and I can assure you that this tree has long found a place to put stabilising roots and has a good hook into the subsoil moisture and nutrients.
Yes a prolonged inundation could easily kill or topple many species of trees. Strong winds easily snap and topple branches and whole trees..
Particularly near the coast and only at 10m elevation, there is always the risks from near coastal lows or full on hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons. The same thing with different names..
Then there's tsunami's that may land at or greater than 30m, let alone any smaller ones..
However, without a photo I'd have difficulty ascertaining any sort of age the tree may be. However, to me a large Jacaranda could easily have been there more than six decades, which is about how big they can get in the first sixty years. It may have been there for many more. All of which does reduce the chance of a catastrophic event having impacted this tree .. yet.

Though trees are the principle reason we evolved at all, part of this is that they do store and return the carbon in the cycle. Thus I've simply planted another when one falls.