subject: Find The Family Holiday Health Spa Retreat Center In Queensland [print this page] The Camp Eden Health Retreat supports a rich variety of plant species that characterize rainforest, regenerating rainforest and wet chlorophyll forests in south-eastern in QLD. The floristic recorded on the property are strongly influenced by soil type, topography and moisture.
There is normally a well developed multi layered canopy of between 10 and 60 species of trees, many of which will exhibit the buttressing commonly associated with rainforest trees. Strangler species, including the ubiquitous Strangler Fig, stands of Bungalow Palms, woody vines and large epiphytes such as Orchids, Birds nest, Elk and Stag horn ferns will be obvious, and the ground cover will consist of ground ferns and large leafed herbs.
The Camp Eden Health Retreat rainforest falls under the white booyong sub-alliance described by Floyd (1990). Floyd emphasizes the conversation value of the white ebooyong alliance of the Tweed environs and describes it as one of the most luxuriant rainforests in New South Wales in Australia.
Despite the huge diversity of species, Black Walnut (Endriandra globosa), Veiny Lace Flower (Arhidendron Muellerianum), Long-Leaved Tuckeroo (Cupaniopsis Newmanii), and the rare species southern Fontana (Fontainea Australia), were found in the rainforest.
To experience the largest remaining intact stand of Sub Tropical Rainforest in New South Wales, a visit to the World Heritage listed Iluka Nature Reserve just north of Grafton is required, or you can make a day trip to Camp Eden Health Retreat Center to enjoy the distinct coastal vegetation and rainforest types preserved there.
Found on Mammals also observed on the property is the mountain brush tail possum (Trichosurus caninus), the long-nosed bandicoot, (Perameles nasuta) and the northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) with some small mammal bush rat, Rattus fuscipes recorded. Bats a total of six bat species have been recorded at Camp Eden Health Retreat by their characteristic ultrasonic echo-locating or audible call. Birds a variety of birds have been sighted. The most conspicuous bird species moving through the property were the scaly-breasted, Trichoglossus chlorolepiotus, and rainbow Trichoglossus haematodus lorikeets and also to be found are several nocturnal bird species. These include the tawny frogmouth owl (Podargus strigoides) and southern boobook (Ninox boobook).
The most significant bird species recorded is the rainforest obligate fruit-doves. These include the wompoo fruit-dove (Ptilinopus magnificus), the rose-crowned fruit dove (Ptilinopus Regina), and the super by fruit-dove (Ptilinopus super bus). Recorded calling from the treetops was the white-eared monarch (Monarcha leucosis).
Cool Temperate Rainforest:
This type of rainforest represented in CERRA, is that of the Cool Temperate Rainforest. It is noted for its commonest and most often only dominant species, the New South Wales in Australia, which is testament to Australia's being part of the southern super continent, Gondwanaland, more than 130 million years ago.
