Extreme heat in
northern Tasmania is transforming the look of the bush.
From Smithton to Bridport, thousands of eucalypts (mainly
white gums and blue gums) have died or are stressed and leaking sap from their
bark.
An ABC Rural story headed: “Extreme heat causing ginger syndrome in eucalypts” tells us that Forestry Tasmania is studying the
phenomena and said the cause is a long and extremely hot spell of weather at
the start of 2013.
“In recently felled trees, it has seen a relationship
between record hot temperatures and the signs of the oozing sap,” the story
reports.
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