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All streets on Barcaldine are named after trees - some native to Australia and some exotic species too. This crossword contains some 44 of them.
First, solve the crossword
ACROSS
2. rhymes with church
4. its wood is called myall-wood
5. a jolly swagman sat under one
7. also called Gidgee
9. also called a willow
13. its bark would float
14. gives blood-like gum
18. don’t put _____apple on my Pizza
20. James Poole burial ground
23. also known as Australian rosewood
28. the Hawks AFL Club
29. the Callistemon
32. Australian floral emblem
34. silver-leaf boree
36. Waang
39. known as wattle
41. the Australian willow
42. paperbarks, honey-myrtles or tea-trees
43. highly valued timber in red and white (rare) |
DOWN
1. Douglas, for one
2. Nothofagus moorei
3. from the tree, a region of north-western Victoria
6. horoeka
8. Elijah, press your clothes
10. from the Latin Buxus
11. mottled trunk due to the bark shedding in patches
12. General Sherman tree
15. popular but not popular
16. roasting on an open fire
17. pin bush or water tree
19. rhymes with turtle
21. also called burning bush
22. Hong Kong orchid
24. tie a yellow ribbon
25. the Caesarsboom
26. Weeping Myall
27. scented white flower
30. sap is boiled to produce a sweet syrup
31. give me a home among the
33. Grafton’s festival of street trees
35. Fraxinus
37. not blackwood
38. known as Barranbaa
40. usually the weeping kind
42. the silver wattle
44. horror film: Nightmare on _____ Street |
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