goborro

Between the goborro and the yarra there seems this difference: the yarra grows only on the banks of rivers, lakes, or ponds, from the water of which the roots derive nourishment; but when the trunk itself has been too long immersed the tree dies; as appeared on various lakes and in reedy swamps on the Lachlan.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

The tree bearing the last letters was a goborro or dwarf box, and had been killed two years before by the natives stripping off a sheet of bark; but from the growth of the solid wood around the carved part it appeared that this tree had increased in diameter about an inch and a half in seventeen years; the whole diameter, including the bark, being sixteen inches.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

These peculiarities we ascertained only after examining many a hopeless hollow where grew the goborro by itself; nor until I had found my sable guides eagerly scanning the yarra from afar when in search of water, and condemning any distant view of goborro trees as hopeless during that dry season.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

The goborro on the contrary seldom grows on the banks of a running stream, but seems to thrive in inundations, however long their duration.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

The plains were intersected by a small wood of goborro (dwarf box) and after crossing this and keeping the lofty yarra trees in view we found these trees at length growing on ground which was intersected by hollows full of reeds, other parts of the surface bearing a green crop of grass.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

The wood throughout the forest consisted of the box or goborro species of eucalyptus and we crossed, soon after first entering it, a small plain.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

We passed through forests of the box or goborro, under which grew a luxuriant crop of grass and two of these flats (on which we saw yarra trees also) stretched away to the westward, breaking the elsewhere unvaried wilderness of sandhills and scrub.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

We crossed grassy plains bounded by sandhills on which grew pines (callitris); and open forests of goborro (or box-tree) prevailed very generally nearer the river.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

Where the bergs receded forest land with the goborro or dwarf-box intervened.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

We next passed for three miles through a forest of goborro, and then crossed a plain three miles in extent.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823