Andrew Thornhill

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Director, N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium; Senior Lecturer in Plant Systematics, University of New England

“Vic Stockwell’s puzzle”: a close but anciently separated relative of the eucalypts. Frank Zich

May 17, 2019

Andrew Thornhill, University of Adelaide

Stockwellia has links back to the epoch before Australia separated into its own continent and was mostly covered in rainforest.

In Australia you can have any tree you want, as long as it’s a eucalypt. Shutterstock

April 8, 2019

Andrew Thornhill, James Cook University

Eucalypts have been in Australia for 45 million years. But hundreds of species appeared more recently than previously thought.