Rosewood Scrub Cultural Connections

Acknowledgement of Country
Ipswich City Council respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners, the Jagera, Yuggera, and Ugarapul People of the Yugara/Yagara Language Group, as custodians of the land and waters we share. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, as the keepers of the traditions, customs, cultures and stories of proud peoples.

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The Rosewood Scrub Arboretum Peace Park was established by Arnold Rieck and the Ipswich branch of the Society for Growing Australian Plants in Partnership with Ipswich City Council in 1994.

The original Rosewood Scrub was a huge tract of dense forest that stretched from Rosewood to Lowood and from Haigslea to Hatton Vale. Significant trees of the scrub included Hoop Pine, Brigalow and Rosewood, Red and White Cedar, White Bean, Peanut Tree and the rare Baileys Cypress Pine.

The Aboriginal people made excellent spears from the heavy timber of the Rosewood Tree (Acacia fasciculifera). They used over fifty species of plants as bush tucker, and over thirty species of plants had medicinal value to them and to early settlers.