This photo is not a misprint. We really do drive on the left side of the road here in Australia. People used to complain that the Department of Main Roads left new roads looking very ugly so the DMR looked for fast growing Australian native trees to landscape the roadsides. Acacia saligna from Western Australia grows very quickly in Sydney. Unfortunately, it grows much more easily here than in Western Australia and it is starting to take over in the bushland near main roads and to starve out the local native plants.
Ants carry the seeds into the bush and if they are dropped in good soil they grow.
In a bushfire the heat makes the seed pods burst open and they begin to grow. The Acacia saligna has soft wood. We don't know how old our tree is. Acacia saligna are fast growing but they are very short lived. They die off within ten to fifteen years.