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Upstanding bottle. Vallis Photograph .
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Battered by Cyclone
Yasi ,
this Narrow Leaf
Bottle Tree , in the 25 hectare Anderson Botanic Gardens , Mundingburra , Townsville, had
to be pruned
and tied to
several stakes because of its drunken
tilt and damage. It now only requires one tie
down and is growing well . The category
4 cyclone resulted
in one third
of the trees
in the parkland
being lost . Now the Townsville
City Council has approved
a plan to plant 200 new trees
. The popular area specialises
in plants of the dry
tropics and has many very large specimens .
