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grow to a maximum height of 25 metres and it is estimated that the Lone Pine has reached this size. The Lone Pine occupies a prominent location in the southwestern corner of the AWM grounds and is one of the
 Figure 3.46 The Lone Pine, an Aleppo pine, planted by HRH Prince Henry in 1934. The Bellona sculpture is visible in the foreground.

 Figure 3.47 One of the Eucalyptus maidenii planted at the entry to the main Memorial building.

 Figure 3.48 Eucalyptus trees in the Eastern Precinct near Treloar Crescent.

   earliest surviving plantings in the grounds (refer to Figure 3.4). The pine is surrounded by a decorative iron railing designed by the noted sculptor W Leslie Bowles.9 The railing was painted green at the direction of John Treloar and a bronze plaque with the following inscription was installed to face the Limestone Avenue (then Romani Street) frontage of the AWM grounds:

      After the capture of the Lone Pine ridge in Gallipoli (6 August 1915), an Australian soldier who had taken part in the attack, in which his brother was killed, found a cone on one of the branches used by the Turks as overhead cover for their trenches, and sent it to his mother. From seed shed by it she raised the tree, which she presented to be planted in the War Memorial grounds in honour of her own and others' sons who fell at Lone Pine.

   Two descendant Lone Pine reserve plantings have been propagated from the original AWM Lone Pine, the first of which was planted in the Central Precinct in 2014 by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (refer to Figure 3.4).10

    Site Vegetation and Natural Heritage

   Appendix H contains a report on the development of the AWM's landscape, particularly considering the age and significance of the native trees and the potential for the site to possess natural heritage values. The report concludes that, of the indigenous vegetation species on site, only the two Eucalyptus melliodora trees and the small group of Eucalyptus bridgesiana in the Eastern Precinct are currently growing in locations where remnant woodland existed at the time of the commencement of the landscaping and development of the AWM in the 1930s/1940s. Furthermore, these are mature enough to have been present, albeit as saplings only, in the original woodland vegetation pre-existing construction on the site, or to have grown in situ from seeds from this native woodland. The two individuals of Eucalyptus melliodora are located southeast of the CEW Bean Building, and a small group of Eucalyptus bridgesiana is located at the intersection of Treloar Crescent and Fairburn Avenue. Their retention within the otherwise cleared and replanted landscape may reflect a design decision on the