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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Walter Marsh

FOUND: Imagine if it died on my watch the fight to save one ancient adelaide tree - What They Never Told You

Neighbours stand under river red gum
Neighbours Paolo Rossi, Carlo Jensen, Rachael Nielsen and son Gerry are protective of the two-century-old river red gum that grows in the middle of the road on Overbury Drive in Adelaide’s Clarence Park. Photograph: Sia Duff/The Guardian

It’s a striking image; in a suburban landscape where nature has been largely pushed aside to make way for roads, houses and driveways, the thick craggy trunk of a towering river red gum tree stands defiantly in place, forcing the bitumen to squeeze and buckle around it. Bang in the middle of the street.

Barely a day goes by without the residents of Overbury Drive noticing a carload of tourists or curious locals pulling up in their quiet cul-de-sac, cameras at the ready.

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