What is Daintree Rainforest?
[[File:Daintree Rainforest.JPG|thumb|220px|The Daintree Rainforest]] The '''Daintree Rainforest''' is a [[tropical rainforest]] in [[Queensland]], [[Australia]]. At around 1200 square kilometres the Daintree is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest on the Australian mainland.<ref>Wilderness Society&nbsp;– The Daintree [http://www.wilderness.org.au/regions/queensland/daintree]</ref><ref>Queensland Environment and Resource Management. Wet Tropics national parks [http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/parks_and_forests/world_heritage_areas/wet_tropics/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826004100/http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/parks_and_forests/world_heritage_areas/wet_tropics/|date=2012-08-26}}</ref> It is named after Richard Daintree, an Australian geologist and photographer. The Daintree Rainforest is a main part of the [[Wet Tropics of Queensland]], listed as a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] in 1988.<ref>The site is labelled the 'Wet Tropics of Queensland' [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/486] Note also, further south on the coast, another World Heritage Site, the '[[Gondwana Rainforests of Australia]]'. [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/368]</ref> These are some of its ancient flora: :* some of the earliest land plants: the whisk ferns and the [[club moss]]es; :* seven ancient [[Family (biology)|families]] of true [[fern]]s; :* the ancient, fern-like [[cycad]] ''Bowenia spectabilis'' (zamia fern) and other cycads, including ''[[Cycas]]'', and the giant ''Lepidozamia hopei'' (zamia palm); :* ancient [[conifers]] such as ''[[Podocarpus]]'' (plum pine or brown pine), ''[[Prumnopitys]]'' (brown pine or southern yew), ''[[Araucaria]]'' (hoop and bunya pines), and ''[[Agathis]]'' (kauri) which are living counterparts of [[Jurassic]]-age fossils (i.e., age of the dinosaurs); :* 12 primitive [[angiosperm]] (flowering plant) [[Family (biology)|families]]: relict angiosperm plant families that are known as fossils from the [[Cretaceous]] including [[Cunoniaceae]], [[Proteaceae]] (banksia and macadamia famil