Callitris glaucophylla (White Cypress Pine), Australia

Recorded by Kim V. Goldsmith near Dubbo New South Wales (Wiradjuri Country), Australia. May 2020. Contact microphones, hydrophones and a shotgun mic were used in over several recording sessions. This was the first wet autumn in three years.

A *Callitris glaucophylla* thicket with some south-facing trunks covered in moss. These trees are on the western facing slope of a ridge south-west of Dubbo NSW.

Callitris trees are found only in Australia and New Caledonia with 13 of the 15 species found in Australia. Commonly called cypress pines because they are related to, and resemble, northern hemisphere cypresses, they are not true pines.

They are a broad conical tree to 20 m high, or stunted tree to only 3 m in less favourable habitats. Leaves 1–3(–6) mm long, glaucous, occasionally dark green, outer side rounded. Female cones usually single, sometimes in groups of 2 or more, ovoid to subglobose, 1–3 cm diam. when open, rarely remaining on branches long after maturity; scales are thin, separating almost to the base as the cone opens.

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