I was lucky enough to visit some Wallum Woodland on Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah) this school holidays, what a treat. The dry heathlands or wallum (derived from an Indigenous word for the dominant plant of the heathlands. the Wallum Banksia) grow on nutrient-leached soil.
This vegetation community is classified as an Endangered regional ecosystem as the original abundance of wallum heathlands along the coast of South East Queensland has been largely destroyed by clearing.
Small areas however still survive on Minjerribah, characterised by banksia trees and numerous species of low growing wildflowers. The intense diversity of the coastal heathlands has attracted the moniker ‘miniature rainforest’.
Woollsia pungens
The stunning new growth of Banksia aemulea, one of its features to help distinguish it from Banksia serrata.
Ricinocarpus pinifolius is EVERY where on the Island and was absolutely spectacular in the Wallum pockets.
Styphelia viridis subsp breviflora grows as an understory in Wallum Country
