- Walk Tasmania: Multi-Day Tours
- GENERAL INFORMATION
- Overland Track Tasmania
- Walls of Jerusalem
- Tasman Coastal Trail - Tasman National Park
- Cradle Mountain & The Tarkine
- Freycinet Circuit - Freycinet National Park
- Mt Field National Park
- South Coast Track
- Mt Anne Circuit - Southwest National Park
- Frenchmans Cap, Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park
- Central Plateau / Walls Of Jerusalem
- WALKING TOUR GRADINGS
- DEPARTURE DATES AND PRICES
- MAKE A BOOKING
- WALKING TOUR INCLUSIONS
- Walk Tasmania: Single Day Tours
- GENERAL INFORMATION
- Mount Field
- Cape Hauy, Tasman Peninsula
- Mount Wellington
- Maydena & The Southwest Wilderness
- Freycinet National Park
- Hartz Peak
- Collins Cap and Collins Bonnet
- Mt Wedge
- Cape Queen Elizabeth, Bruny Island
- Bluff River Gorge
- WALKING TOUR GRADINGS
- DEPARTURE DATES AND PRICES
- MAKE A BOOKING
- WALKING TOUR INCLUSIONS
- Walking Tour Gradings
- Accommodation New Norfolk
- Transport Tasmania
- Hiking Products for Sale
- Track Food
- Hiking Equipment Hire
- Tasmania: Useful Facts
- Nature Conservation
- Client Feedback
Tasmania's Flora
Despite Tasmania's relatively small land mass of approximately 64,000 square km, it has a bountiful range of over 2,000 native and introduced flowering plant species, of which more than 200 are endemic to the State.
The World Conservation Union has recognised Tasmania as an "International Centre for Plant Diversity"
Weathered and faulted rock surfaces, sculpted by past glaciers and eroded by heavy rains, also contribute to the range of soil types and plant environments supporting the variety of species. You can expect to encounter:
- ancient slow-growing native pines (Huon, King Billy, Celery Top) in sub-alpine and wet temperate regions
- vast moorland plains of buttongrass on peat soils in the south west
- wind-pruned heaths and the ancient palm-like pandani in alpine areas
- dense scrub in wetter swampy areas
- unique "cushion- or bolster-plant" communities on bleak alpine plateaus
- myrtle (including the spectacular fagus, Australia's only deciduous beech) and sassafras forming dense canopies of small leaves in temperate rainforests
- tall eucalypts, including Eucalyptus regnans (the highest flowering plant in the world), in wet gullies and areas with rich deep soils
- open dry sclerophyll forests of eucalypts at lower altitudes and in the dryer eastern coastal regions
- rare and exquisitely beautiful wild orchids, along with ferns, mosses and lichens, and wattles
The World Conservation Union has officially recognised this rich mosaic of vegetation in these regions as an International Centre for Plant Diversity. Few regions in Australia, and indeed the world, offer so much in such a compact and accessible area.
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