Flora and fauna There is a great variety of vegetation here, depending on rainfall and altitude: eucalypt woodlands, coachwoods, southern sassafras, stinging trees, long-leaf waxflowers and yellow carabeens with their flying buttressed trunks. Werrikimbe is home to the rare plants such as Chiloglottis bird orchids,Threatened Species of the New England Tablelands & NW Slopes of NSW, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, 2003, downy guinea flowers and fairy lanterns. These forests also contain the only examples of filmy king fern known to occur in northern New South Wales. The Antarctic beech forest, found at the end of the North Plateau Road, is estimated to be up to 1,000 years old and forms the largest compact southern beech forest in existence.Reader's Digest Guide to Australian Places, Reader's Digest, Sydney The threatened parva subspecies of pygmy cypress pine occurs on the eastern edge of the Northern Tablelands in the park.
Flora and fauna There is a great variety .of vegetation here depending on rainfall and altitude: eucalypt woodlands, coachwoods, southern sassafras, stinging trees, long-leaf waxflowers and yellow carabeens with their flying buttressed trunks. Werrikimbe is home to the rare plants such as Chiloglottis bird orchids,Threatened Species of the New England Tablelands & NW Slopes of NSW, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, 2003, downy guinea flowers and fairy lanterns These forests also contain the only examples of filmy king fern known to occur in northern New South Wales. The Antarctic beech forest, found at the end of the North Plateau Road, is estimated to be up to 1,000 years ol,d and forms the largest compact southern beech forest in existence.Reader's Digest Guide to Australian Places, Reader's Digest, Sydney The threatened parva subspecies of pygmy cypress pine occurs on the eastern edge of the Northern Tablelands in the park.