| Brigalow is a kind of woodland. The name brigalow is also given to a distinctive tree form. From the central base of a large woody root stock known as a lignotuber, a number of trunks grow out like the ribs of an umbrella.Depending on the soil and the species, a brigalow may reach from a little over a metre to as high as 12 metres. This plant form has advantages in dry country, one being that fires may destroy the above ground trunks but new shoots will rapidly develop from the root stock safe below the soil. |  |
| The closely packed brigalow is
an acacia or wattle with long boomerang shaped leaves of misty blue. Some
botanists suggest that the brigalow country of inland northern New South
Wales and southern Queensland can be regarded as the northern equivalent
of the mallee country.
When brigalow covered huge areas it was known as the national scrub. Because it grows on good soil, suitable for farming, recent years have seen the widespread clearing of this area and today only a few small reserves of virgin brigalow country are left. |
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| Many other trees are associated with the brigalow including the bottle tree, a gracefully shaped species with a trunk shaped like a slender bottle, its narrow neck topped by a crown of leaves. In dry times both leaves and trunk provide food and water for hungry and thirsty stock. Brigalow country suffered severely during the prickly pear invasion of the last century and today various species of this cactus are still something of a problem. | |
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