10. Eucalyptus Obliqua
Well, well; another eucalypt! Told ya there’d be a few mentioned as they all typically grow to be quite tall. It, too, is located in Tasmania; which is fitting, since you often hear it go by Tasmanian oak or Australian oak. Like the alpine ash, the Australian oak has a slew of common nicknames such as brown top, brown top stringbark, messmate, stringybark, and messmate stringybark. The largest recorded Australian oak goes by the name of “Gothmog”, so if you’re at all familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien novels you can imagine how it got that name. Gothmog stands roughly 295 feet tall with a total recorded volume of 11,920 cubic feet.
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