page_title: Bungonia National Park
section_title: Flora
hierarchical_section_title: Bungonia National Park / Flora and fauna / Flora
caption_attribution_description: Leaves of a Black She-oak, Allocasuarina littoralis. Burnum Burnum Reserve, Jannali NSW Australia, May 2012.
context_page_description: Bungonia National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Australian state of New South Wales, roughly 40 kilometres east of the city of Goulburn and 122 km south-west of Sydney. The approximately 15 square kilometres park borders the Bungonia State Conservation Area to the South, Morton National Park to the East, and Bungonia Creek to the North. Only a relatively recent addition to the national parks registry, Bungonia was originally protected as a water reserve to prevent contamination of the Shoalhaven River in the mid-late 19th century.
  The park is managed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service which maintains several campgrounds and walking trails throughout the park. The park is most famous for its many caves and gorges, which offer a variety of climbing and canyoning opportunities. Bungonia National Park is also notable for its position in a chain of national parks that extend down the central NSW section of the Great Dividing Range, including Morton National Park, Budawang National Park, and Bimberamala National Park.
context_section_description: The vegetation of Bungonia National Park is extensive and with most species occurring throughout the Southern Tablelands region. Bungonia is known to contain broad-leaved peppermint (Eucalyptus dives), white gum (Eucalyptus wandoo), grass trees (xanthorrhoea), red stringybark (Eucalyptus macrorhyncha), and large amounts of black ash (Eucalyptus sieberi) forest. Eucalyptus dominate the landscape, especially on the main plateau. In colder sections of the park, snow gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora), and snow grass (Poa sieberiana), thrive, particularly in winter. Like much of the southern portion of the Great Dividing Range, black she-oak (allocasuarina littoralis) is common to lower canopy and regeneration areas. There is also some restricted growth of the argyle apple (Eucalyptus cinerea), known for its soft blue foliage.
caption: Black She-oak is a prominent part of the vegetation in the park
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