Huon Pine for Rachel

What an amazing tree. They are the 2nd oldest tree in the world and extremely slow growing. This particular one is fallen over (but still alive) and is 2200 yrs old. Because of the particular oils in the pine, they do not deterioate. They've recently dug one out of a swamp in Tassie which has been wet for hundreds of years and the wood is still good as gold. The forest in this area was choc-a-bloc full of moss and thousands of years of leaf litter and fallen trees. It was beautiful.