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The turpentine is found in eastern Queensland and New South Wales, from Atherton in the far north to as far south as Murramarang National Park.[4][6] North of Gympie, the distribution is fragmented, with colonies on the Blackdown and Consuelo Tablelands, Tinaroo district and Windsor Tableland.[4] The habitat most commonly associated with the turpentine is transitional forest between rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest.[4] Here it grows as an emergent tree,[6] and is associated with such trees as flooded gum (Eucalyptus grandis), tallowwood (E. microcorys), grey ironbark (E. paniculata), white stringybark (E. globoidea), yellow stringybark (E. muelleriana), white-topped box (E. quadrangulata), rough-barked apple (Angophora floribunda), brush box (Lophostemon confertus) and various rainforest species.[4][5] It also grows with spotted gum (Corymbia maculata) and blackbutt (E. pilularis).[4] On poorer soils, it can grow much smaller in dry sclerophyll forest in association with smooth-barked apple (Angophora costata) and yellow bloodwood (Corymbia eximia).[5]
Adaptable to a wide range of soils, the turpentine is most suited to moderate to high-nutrient soils, such as clay soil over Wianamatta shale in the Sydney region.[5] Valleys and flat areas are highly suitable sites.[4] In the Sydney region, the species reaches an altitude of 300 m (1000 ft), but this extends to 900 m (3000 ft) above sea level in northern Queensland.[4]
The turpentine is one of the dominant species of the critically endangered Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest ecological community.[5]

  Den Houthakker Jul 12, 2013 8:06 AM