Native Trees and Shrubs - Alexander Palm, Flame tree

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Buying the plants below that cost a bit more are either grafted plants, those that require specialist means of propagation or rare varieties. The cheap plants are grown from seed and are easier to propogate.

Native Trees & Shrubs

Small Leaved Fig - Ficus obliqua

This is a large spreading strangling fig with a dense shady crown. It is an excellent bird attracting tree. Food source for rare and endangered 'Coxens Fig Parrot' and 'Wompoo Fruit Dove'. Perfect specimen for Bonsai or container plant.

Flame tree - Brachychiton acerifolius

A spectacular plant for large gardens, parks or as a street tree. Bright green, shiny, palmate shaped leaves with red bell-shaped flowers. Flowers best after a hot dry summer. Tolerant of most soil types and positions.

Bottle Tree

Narrow Leaf Bottle Tree has a swollen bottle like trunk. The insignificant flowers followed by small interesting boat like pods. A very attractive specimen tree or useful indoor plant. 20m

Tree Fern

This is a beautiful and hardy native Australian tree fern which is adaptable to many sites provided it has adequate moisture levels. It is fast growing with large lacy fronds and a slender trunk that is adorned with a pattern of oval scars where the old leaf bases are shed cleanly. It makes a very attractive garden plant where it will prefer a frost free moist position.

Atherton Native Ginger (Red Form)

Versatile plant used by Aboriginal people. The ginger tasting roots were eaten and the flesh from the bright blue fruit. This Red Coloured form is from Atherton Tablelands.The large leaves were thatched and used to make shelters and to wrap food for cooking.

Hill's weeping fig

These large evergreen trees have short main trunks or several main trunks supporting a dense canopy of lustrous dark green leaves on slightly pendulous branches. They produce small green figs which ripen to salmon pink. 20m

Little Kurrajong - Brachychiton bidwilli (Grafted)

The large, bell-shaped flowers are usually deep pink and occur in clusters at the ends of the branches. The flowers are very spectacular and are followed by seed capsules which contain many large seeds.

Little Kurrajong - Brachychiton bidwillii

This is a very beautiful plant with bright clusters of pink/red flowers, 4-5cm across which appear just before new leaves.. Both flowers and new shoots are softly hairy. It adapts well to drought, seldom over 5m tall.

Lemon Aspen

Small to medium sized rainforest tree bearing aromatic and acidic fruit used in the bushfood industry. Lemon aspen fruit has a grapefruit and lime like flavour, and is popular in beverages, sauces and confectionary.