Gallipoli Anzac Cover pine tree at Dixon Park PHOTO ALBUM

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DescriptionMarch 30, 2025

The GALLIPOLI, ANZAC Lone Pine Has Fallen.
Planted in Dixon park, Greymouth during the 1950,s with seed from the lone pine in Camberra, which itself was descended from the Anzac Cove original pine. Part of the tree still remains so an arborist might be able to save it.ContributorTony Kokshoorn

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CommentsSamwise Gibbens
Lets hope someone can keep this history alive!

Jim Galloway
The news clipping is correct. The seed collected by Mrs Baillie from Anzac Cove was taken to the Granville Nursery at Totara Flat to be propagated. My Father Alec Galloway was the person who did this and the seedling was later transferred to Dixon Park. I can remember this.

Trevor Taylor
I hope some one was smart enough to have been collecting seeds from it so another can be grown.

Brad Cadwallader
It would be good to have a foliage and cone sample sent to the Scion herbarium in Rotorua to confirm the species. If it came from the Canberra tree it is likely to be an Allepo pine (Pinus halipensis) rather than a Turkish red pine (Pinus brutia).

Colleen Yee
I trust another tree will be planted there from a seeedling of the fallen.

Noel Marie Batty
Watched that tree grow while at Grey Main and still visit it next to McGlashan Bridge when in Grey.
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Erin Dense
Oh sad! Not surprised tho, that limb has looked like it could go for a while now

Lititia Buckman
Someone needs to go graft it or get a cone or two!

Pam Englefield-Absolum
Templeton RSA has a Gallipoli pine tree.

Nathan Young
Any way 2 gather seeds or do a clone?
Samwise Gibbens
Lets hope someone can keep this history alive!
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Jim Galloway
The news clipping is correct. The seed collected by Mrs Baillie from Anzac Cove was taken to the Granville Nursery at Totara Flat to be propagated. My Father Alec Galloway was the person who did this and the seedling was later transferred to Dixon Park. I can remember this.

Trevor Taylor
I hope some one was smart enough to have been collecting seeds from it so another can be grown.

Noel Marie Batty
Watched that tree grow while at Grey Main and still visit it next to McGlashan Bridge when in Grey.

Brad Cadwallader
It would be good to have a foliage and cone sample sent to the Scion herbarium in Rotorua to confirm the species. If it came from the Canberra tree it is likely to be an Allepo pine (Pinus halipensis) rather than a Turkish red pine (Pinus brutia).

Kath Rogers
Very interesting

Colleen Yee
I trust another tree will be planted there from a seeedling of the fallen.?
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Les Holmes Germanicus
As a Greymouth Heritage Trust member in 2010 or thereabouts I brought this up in a meeting, the matter went to Council and they came soon after and gave it the attention it needed by cutting back the branches of adjacent trees to give it more light.

Erin Dense
Oh sad! Not surprised tho, that limb has looked like it could go for a while now

Kath Rogers
Dry interesting.

Michaela Perkins
What our boys fight and died for us happening again. What did you expect.

Lititia Buckman
Someone needs to go graft it or get a cone or two!

Connor Smith
I've never been into Dixon Park to look at a tree like this one, but it is very important to us as this helps us keep the memories and lives of those who fought and died for our nation during the Gallipoli campaign

Pam Englefield-Absolum
Templeton RSA has a Gallipoli pine tree.

Nathan Young
Any way 2 gather seeds or do a clone?

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