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Ancient Antarctic Beech Trees

Ancient Antarctic Beech Trees

Remnants from a long lost past, these 2000 year old trees exist only in high altitude temperate rainforest pockets in Australia and New Zealand (?). Survivors o...
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Remnants from a long lost past, these 2000 year old trees exist only in high altitude temperate rainforest pockets in Australia and New Zealand (?). Survivors of a prehistoric age, the environment is no longer suitable for seed production. Instead the reproduce by sending out "suckers", creating clones of themselves. These trees are the parent trees of those growing in this area of the forest.
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Aperture f/3.3 ISO 800 Shutter 1/500 Focal Length 43/10

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Mar, 2018

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