Rainforest Regrowth

[Ecosy...@daseintropic.au]

I bought a 40acre property -old sugar cane farm with a fringe of rainforest, a few years ago. After about a year I noticed that a number of trees on the edge of the rainforest had died. I wasn't quite sure why at the time but over the past two years I came to realise that the deaths were caused by a plant parasite. I also realised that when the trees had gotten to about 6 metres a ring of different saplings began to grow quite close to the trunk. In otherwords what was happening is establishment of a primary regrowth that is host to a parasite and home and food of birds which also drop other seed and the primary tree provides shade, ?nutrition and water, and protection for the growth of more robust and varied trees that seem to need a better situation to get started. 

This is a good example of regrowth phases. 

Although I am growing fruit trees on the previously cleared paddock, I am keeping as many of the regrowth trees as I can. I a m looking forward to observing how the farm produces when the rainforest trees get larger and more expansive (as there is a lot of space between them). 

I have attached a number of photos which show the primary regrowth tree species, the parasite that only lives on that tree, and I haven't seen it on any other species, and the secondary regrowth saplings. 

Owen

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