page_title: Nothofagus moorei
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Nothofagus moorei / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Antarctic Beech trees (Nothofagus moorei) at "Tullawallul" in Lamington National Park, about 3 kilometres via walking track from Binna Burra.
context_page_description: Nothofagus moorei, commonly known as Antarctic beech, is an important Gondwana relict of the rainforests of the southern hemisphere. It occurs in wet, fire-free areas at high altitude in eastern Australia.
  The Antarctic Beech group is an ancient type of tree, of significance to southern hemisphere botanical distribution. Plants in the Nothofagaceae are currently found in southern South America and Australasia.
context_section_description: Many individuals are extremely old, some about 12,000 years. And at one time it was believed that the Eastern Australian populations could not reproduce in present-day conditions, except by suckering (asexual reproduction), being remnant forest from a cooler time. It has since been shown that sexual reproduction may occur, but distribution in cool, isolated high-altitude environments at temperate and tropical latitudes is consistent with the theory that the species was more prolific in a cooler age. The pattern of distribution around the southern Pacific Ocean rim has fed speculation that the dissemination of the genus dates to the time when Antarctica, Australia and South America were connected, the theoretical common land-mass referred to as Gondwana.
  It is an ornamental tree and cultivated specimens tolerate −7 °C (19 °F), though wild plants growing on Barrington Tops have withstood record low temperatures of −17 °C (1 °F), no source provenance have been selected from there and other mountains, highlands or plateaus for cultivation.
caption: Antarctic beech trees in Numinbah Nature Reserve
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