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Level of Significance

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  • Local
  • Regional
  • State
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Age

?yrs

Trees

38

Diameter

1m

Height - 40m

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Details

Common name
Lombardy Poplar
Botanical name
Populus nigra var italica
Type
Avenue
Condition
Poor
Municipality
Alpine (VIC)
Location
Morses Creek Road, Wandiligong VIC 3744
Access
Unrestricted
Significances
  • Outstanding size (Scientific)
  • Outstanding species (Scientific)
  • Location/Context (Social)
  • Landscape (Social)
Date of measurement
06 Jan 2011
Date of classification
14 Dec 1995

Statement of Significance

This double row of trees was planned as an avenue driveway by the E C Dyason family to lead to a proposed new home on their property. The poplars were planted between 1931 and 1932 but the new house was never built and only the trees survive. The avenue exhibits a regimental splendour unparalled in Wandiligong. <BR>The Lombardy Poplar is native to north-western Africa and Europe and is widely naturalised in Australia. It is now regarded as an environmental weed in the ACT,New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia.