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This beautifully sculptural plant will undergo a number of physiological changes as it matures. The stem will develop it's characteristic bottle shape after about 5 years and the leaves will change from finely palmate to elliptical. They will drop their leaves before flowering in October - December each year once they are mature. The flowers are yellowish in colour and campanulate in shape (which is botany speak for bell shaped with petals that flare outward). Source: greenhouseco.com.au/products/queensland-bottle-tree-brach...

Kilkivan is a small town nestled in the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range and on the bank of Wide Bay Creek. Historically it boomed during a brief goldrush - the area is rich in minerals - but today it is a quiet rural centre, with attractive parks and interesting heritage buildings, which services the beef and cattle farmers in the surrounding district. Source: www.aussietowns.com.au/town/kilkivan-qld

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In Australia, Staghorn Ferns (Platycerium superbum) are native to lowland forests in Queensland and northeastern New South Wales. They reproduce through single-cell spores and, although they grow well in Western Australia and South Australia and, with protection from the cold, can also be grown in temperate regions of Victoria, they will not readily propagate in these cooler climates. Staghorns in nurseries in these areas has generally been sourced from natural growth in Queensland or New South Wales. Staghorns are epiphytic and do not draw nourishment from the host on which they grow. Hosts can be trees, rocks, concrete water tanks, etc. Rather, staghorns feed on falling leaves and insects. Nourishment and moisture come from the air, not from roots in the ground or from the host tree Source www.stagosaurus.com/staghorn-ferns/

....the Islanders in most areas of the Pacific depended on continuous contact with Europeans for the supply of pipes, but in some parts of the Solomon Islands, the inhabitants established a clay pipe manufacturing industry which satisfied, in part at least, the newly-acquired habit and lessened native dependence on Europeans. ....the pipe-making craft...developed on Buka Island at the northern end of the Solomon Islands in the late nineteenth century, .. and was adopted by villages which did not traditionally make pottery. Source: JOURNAL ARTICLE SMOKING PIPES AND CULTURE CHANGE ON BUKA ISLAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Jim Specht The Journal of the Polynesian Society Vol. 84, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 1975), pp. 356-364