Description

Located approximately 15klms North of Birdsville grows one of Australia's rarest plants, the Waddi Trees (Acacia puece). With their spiky, needle-like leaves and thick bark, its believed to be one of the hardest timbers known. Some of these trees are around 1000 years old. The Waddi tree piqued early explorer William John Wills' interest, with some samples of the seeds found buried in his diary after his death. The extreme hardness of Waddi wood was put to a number of uses by the local Aboriginals and European settlers. Now a protected species you can find these trees on the fringe of the Simpson Desert in Queensland and the Northern Territory.