One of the last wild Individuals of its kind on earth

2026

Gossia gonoclada, the Angle-stemmed Myrtle, exits nowhere else on Earth except within a 30-kilometre radius of Moreton Bay - and fewer than 70 individuals are known to remain in the wild. One of them grows on the 12th hole at The Brisbane Golf Club. This is not a nursery-grown or propagated specimen. It is one of the species' remaining original wild individuals, documented by the Oxley Creek Catchment Association (OCCA) as one of only a small number of confirmed naturally occurring sites left, alongside Nosworthy Park and Cliveden Avenue Reserve. The species is listed as Endangered under Queensland and Commonwealth law. Working from Brisbane City Council's own Conservation Action Statement for the species, the Club developed a formal protocol governing all work near the tree: no fertilizer within its root zone, no soil compaction, and no changes nearby without assessment first.