Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 16-72

Landscapes "Black Mountain", a spectacular geological feature South of Cooktown on Mareeba road, Queensland 1959 Larger image (125K)

These bare blackened granite tors and boulders are a fire-proof habitat for tropical rainforest woody species of high vagility, i.e. seed dispersal mainly by birds, e.g. figs (Ficus spp.) whose roots reach deep into moist rock crevices.

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