Early settlers gave this nameto several large Eucalypts, from the hardness of their bark,especially to E. Brush-Bloodwood, n. 132: Black wattle . ' Dodder Laurel, n.
Kookaburra, n. a swamp tussock, so called froma fancied resemblance to the head of a Maori. , and the tarwhine, C. Skullbanker, or Scowbanker, n.