Event information
- When
- 13 December 2024 - 8 February 2025
- Where
First Street, Booragul NSW 2284
- Category
- Exhibition and Shows
- Accessibility
- Welcomes people with access needs
- Cost
- Free
Overview of this event
Blue Haze: Awaba follows the journey of Eucalyptus, with over 850 species, away from its culturally significant context – the Aboriginal land it comes from.
At the hands of the British it was taken from Australia and promoted for being the fastest and tallest growing hardwood including in India where over 170 species were trialled, beginning in the 1840s in the Nilgiri Hills.
It quickly became the main tree planted for timber plantations. ‘Nilgiri’ literally means ‘blue mountain’, originally named for the clustered bloom of the blue flowering species Strobilanthes kunthiana, but now also radiates a blue haze due to the eucalyptus plantings.
Contact details
Email:
mac@lakemac.nsw.gov.au
Phone:
(02) 4921 0382
Getting there
First Street, Booragul NSW 2284
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