Editing Brook Islands National Park (section)

== Flora ==
The plants of the Brook Islands are only partly known. North Brook Island’s predominant vegetation is a lush, well-developed rainforest with many vines (notophyll vine forest), likely to include some rare and interesting species. Humans, feral animals, and weeds and fires have had less effect on the islands than on the mainland. This has ensured the islands remain as important representative samples of island ecosystems. North Brook’s vine forests feature some very dense areas of the rare palm ''[[Arenga australasica]]''. Although this palm is abundant on these small islands, it is rare on the mainland. Golden orchids ''[[Dendrobium discolor]]'' are abundant on the rocks near the shoreline. The vine forests are poorly known but appear not to have been subject to fire for a long time and are likely to prove botanically interesting when fully investigated. Many of the plants appear to indicate a relationship to the pied imperial-pigeons which regularly transport seed considerable distances and thus, it would appear, enrich the islands’ species diversity. Common canopy species include ''[[Semecarpus australiensis]]'' (tar tree), ''[[Palaquium galactoxylum]]'', ''[[Myristica insipida]]'' and ''[[Alstonia scholaris]].'' The vegetation on the sandspit of North Brook Island is particularly well-developed compared with similar locations in the area.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Brook Islands National Park and Goold Island National Park Management Plan |url=https://parks.desi.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/168605/brook-island-and-goold-island-national-parks-1999.pdf |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=Queensland Government parks and forests}}</ref>