Not far along the Shoobridge Track on kunanyi is the astonishing Octopus Tree. It wraps its tentacle-like roots around a large boulder. The tree is now known as Eucalyptus tasmaniensis, the Tasmanian Alpine ash and is endemic to lutruwita/Tasmania. Eucalyptus delegatensis was first formally described in 1900 by RT Baker from a specimen collected on Delegate Mountain, so the specific epithet delegatensis refers to the type location, first described as Eucalyptus delegatensis subsp. Tasmaniensis Boland in 1985.