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Royal Botanical Gardens Images.
More botanical gardens images for weary workers. As you leave the tunnel under Plains Rd, this is the sight that meets your gaze.
As I said on the main RBG page, in summer 2009 the gardens had a rare Wollemi Pine exhibition, a tree from the Jurassic Period and thought to be extinct. Then four survivors were found in the Blue Mountains of Australia -- Conan Doyle's 'Lost World' wasn't so far fetched after all. Anyhow, on the day we visited, the tree was recovering in a tropical house somewhere and this 'baby' was standing in -- that's what the sign says. As we are now expanding the number of Jurassic trees to bolster the few in the wild, it seems Michael Crichton's 'Jurassic Park' isn't so far out either. It's to be hoped we don't find a dinosaur, after all.
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