Track and river:
all over too fast.
Flicking by the elusive, alluring Bloomfield River and onto
the Bloomfield Track
(we were heading south
towards the Daintree,
but these photos go northward)
6, 7. A large muscular fig with unusual
(to me) linear - oblong leaves.
Note (7) the buttressing and aerial roots.
No idea, but may be Ficus virgata, which likes open forest, reaching 30m tall, often a strangler.
Or a hairy fig (F. hispida) to 13m, sandpapery leaf tops, hairy undersides, or a sandpaper fig (F. opposita).
All range from here, to Papua New Guinea and Asia. Big scope, not counting the others
(c.550 shared by Indonesia & Australia, of c850 species, worldwide)
8 - 10. I'm guessing is milky pine, white cheesewood or devil tree (Alstonia scholaris, Apocynaceae, Indomalesia to China, SE Asia and Australia). Milky sap as per this family. A pioneer species, tree to 40m. Leaves glossy above, whitish beneath. Timber much used, including as blackboards and slates for Burmese and Indian schoolchildren (hence, scholaris...). It has many medicinal uses and tgere's ongoing research into its chemical compounds.
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