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"The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people."
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Source: Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.24, The Miegunyah Press
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