A lone ghost gum clings tenaciously to the 100m drop and water spills silently from a mossy overhang.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
The town, known simply as Barcy, is home to the Tree of Knowledge, a 150-year-old ghost gum that was the meeting place for striking shearers in 1891.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The Barcaldine ghost gum, said to be the birthplace of the Australian Labor Party after a 1891 shearers'strike, was declared dead in 2006, having been deliberately poisoned.