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Rainforest Trees
CategoryTrees and Plants > Rainforest Trees
Generally rainforest trees can be split up into Understorey Plants, Primary Species, Secondary Species and Mature but there is some overlap... Read More
Australia is home to some of the most magnificent and unique rainforest plants in the world. A most versatile group of plants, they have ornamental, environmental and commercial value and can be used to create attractive backyard habitats, as indoor specimen plants, small-scale reforestation projects or large commercial ventures.
Subtropical rainforest is found in high rainfall areas in rich volcanic soil. The forests contain 10 to 60 species of trees, the more common ones being the booyongs, yellow carrabeen, rosewood, figs and lillypillies.
Australia is home to some of the most magnificent and unique rainforest plants in the world. A most versatile group of plants, they have ornamental, environmental and commercial value and can be used to create attractive backyard habitats, as indoor specimen plants, small-scale reforestation projects or large commercial ventures.
Subtropical rainforest is found in high rainfall areas in rich volcanic soil. The forests contain 10 to 60 species of trees, the more common ones being the booyongs, yellow carrabeen, rosewood, figs and lillypillies.
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Cabinet Timber Trees
Trees and Plants > Rainforest Trees > Cabinet Timber Trees
The Cabinet Timber Trees are high quality rainforest trees that are great for people with a larger block and who can harvest the timber in about 10-20 years. They are suitable for creating impressive furniture.
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Pioneer Plants
Trees and Plants > Rainforest Trees > Pioneer Plants
A list of Pioneer Plants for the australia environment.
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Red Cedar
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Lilly Pilly Riberry
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Fig Sandpaper
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Native Frangipani
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Red Ash
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Brown Tamarind
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Grevillea Silky Oak
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Brush box
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Black bean
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Lilly Pilly Giant water gum
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Swamp turpentine
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Bleeding Heart
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Ivory Curl Tree
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Native Olive
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Kurrajong
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Guioa
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Blue Tongue
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Native Mulberry
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Cudgerie
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Pink Euodia
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Fig Sandpaper Birds Eye
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Lilly Pilly Magenta Cherry
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Macaranga
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White Cedar
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Native Rosella
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Brown Kurrajong
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Queensland Maple
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Tulipwood
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Grevillea White Oak
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Native Elderberry Sambucus australasica
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Aspen White
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Celerywood
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Pencil Cedar
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Tulip Satinwood
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Koda
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Turpentine tree
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Tuckeroo
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Red olive berry
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Batswing coral
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Purple Pea Bush
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White Bolly Gum
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Cheese Tree
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Water Gum
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Aspen Silver
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Queensland Hollywood
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Red Kamala
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Australian Daphne
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Hairy Clerodendrum
- image Myrsine variabilis Muttonwood
- image Rhodamnia maideniana Smooth Scrub Turpentine
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Pink Ash
- image Mallotus discolour Yellow Kamala
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Jackwood
- image Rhodamnia rubescens Scrub Turpentine
- image Cissus antarctica Water Vine
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Ribbonwood
- image Rhodamnia argentea Silver Myrtle
- image Pittosporum Hairy
- image Alectryon Hairy Birds Eye
- image Alectryon Beach
- image Aspen Hairy acronychia
- image Polyscias australiana Ivory Basswood
- image Callicoma
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Riparian Trees
Trees and Plants > Rainforest Trees > Riparian Trees
Planting along water courses and creeks for controlling erosion.
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Lilly Pilly Broad leaved
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Fig Sandpaper
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Lilly Pilly Weeping
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Red Ash
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Lomandra hystrix Mat Rush
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Melaleuca Swamp paperbark
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Three veined Cryptocarya
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Lilly Pilly Giant water gum
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Swamp turpentine
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Glossy Laurel
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Red Bean
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Baeckea Clarence River
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Warrigal Greens Native Spinach
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Sheoak River
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Foambark
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Guioa
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Callistemon Weeping
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Lomandra longifolia Mat Rush
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Sheoak Swamp
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Fig Sandpaper Birds Eye
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Palm Fan
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Blue Quandong
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Stream Lily
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Banksia Coastal Prostrate
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Eucalyptus Forest Red Gum
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Blue flax lily
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Lilly Pilly Creek
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River Lily
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Hard quandong
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Tuckeroo
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Fine leaved Tuckeroo
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Banana Bush
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Water Gum
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Melaleuca Prickly leaved Tea Tree
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Red Kamala
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- image Yellow Pear fruit
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Australian Daphne
- image Myrsine variabilis Muttonwood
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Tree Heath
- image Mallotus discolour Yellow Kamala
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Jackwood
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Lilly Pilly Rain Cherry
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Red Cedar
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Lilly Pilly Broad leaved
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Palm Foxtail
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Lilly Pilly Weeping
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Fig Small Leaved
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Brown Tamarind
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Aniseed Myrtle
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Snow wood
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Fig Rusty
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Flame Tree Grafted
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Tamanu Calophyllum inophyllum
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Yellow wood
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Lilly Pilly Red Apple
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Firewheel Tree
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Three veined Cryptocarya
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Kauri Pine Qld
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Lilly Pilly Paperbark Satinash
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Lacebark
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Leichhardt Bean
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Glossy Laurel
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Red Bean
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Red Bauple Nut
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Fig Deciduous
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Flame Tree
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Native Tamarind
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Foambark
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Macadamia Bush Nut
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Kurrajong
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Plum Pine
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Cassowary Pine
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Teak or Crows Ash
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Lilly Pilly Coolamon
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Flame Tree x Lacebark Brachychiton
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Lilly Pilly Aussie Compact
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Golden penda
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White Beech
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Bunya Nut
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Blue Quandong
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Tree Waratah
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Fig Moreton Bay
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Black Apple
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Flame on Bottle
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Atherton Oak
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Lilly Pilly Blue
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Native Wisteria
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Plum Pine Female Cutting
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Hoop Pine
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Eumundi Quandong
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Fig Strangler
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Booyong Black
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Rosewood
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Bower Of Beauty Pink
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Palm Kentia
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Black Plum
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Brush Cassia
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Black Walnut Australian Native
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Fig Hills Weeping
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Lilly Pilly Creek
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Booyong White
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Hard quandong
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Native Wampee
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Palm Alexander
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Olivers Sassafras
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Rose Myrtle
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Palm Cabbage
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Brown Silky Oak
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Fine leaved Tuckeroo
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Yellow Cheesewood
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Lilly Pilly Brush Cherry
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Lilly Pilly Onionwood Satinash
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Hairy Walnut
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Rose Maple
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Lilly PIlly Sour Cherry
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Lignum vitae
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Palm Black
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Coachwood
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Fig White
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Silky Beech
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Lilly Pilly River Cherry
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Barklya
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Hairy Rosewood
- image Lilly Pilly Purple Cherry
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Aspen Silver
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Cheese Tree Umbrella
- image Pigeonberry Ash
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Tuckeroo Small leaved
- image Yellow Pear fruit
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Tuckeroo Brown
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White Lace Flower
- image Sloanea australis Maidens Blush
- image Dinosperma erythrococcum Tingletongue
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Flintwood
- image Alectryon Hairy Birds Eye
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Coogera
- image Corduroy Tamarind
- image Black leaved Silky Oak
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Understorey Plants
Trees and Plants > Rainforest Trees > Understorey Plants
The plants that grow beneath the forest canopy. They are the underbrush or undergrowth that makes a rainforest lush down to ground level. Often these plants can grow in very low light.
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Davidsons Plum QLD
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Palm Foxtail
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Midyim Berry
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Lomandra hystrix Mat Rush
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Native Ginger
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Graptophyllum Holly leaved
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Richmond Birdwing Vine
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Lilly Pilly Cascade
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Prickly Rasp Fern
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Native Gardenia
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Lilly Pilly Cherry Puff
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Finger Lime Jali Red
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Baeckea Clarence River
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Warrigal Greens Native Spinach
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Cunjevoi Lily
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Bolwarra
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Native Ginger Atherton Red Back
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Blue Tongue
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Native Violet
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Lomandra longifolia Mat Rush
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Hoya
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Finger Lime Judys Everbearing
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Finger Lime Alstonville
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Finger Lime
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Mountain Pepper Female
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Staghorn Fern (30cm)
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Palm Walking Stick
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Tree Fern
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Palm Fan
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Southern Swamp Orchid
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Blueberry Ash Prima Donna
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Gymea Lily
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Stream Lily
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Native Wampee Gregs
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Native Ginger Wavy Leaf
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Palm Bangalow
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Blue flax lily
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Cycad Burrawang
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Blueberry ash
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Cut leaf mint Bush
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Cycad Scaly Zamia
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Birds Nest Fern
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Fern Leaved Tamarind
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River Lily
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Rough Maidenhair Fern
- image Cycad Macrozamia johnsonii
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Red fruited Saw sedge
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Little Evodia
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Palm Cabbage
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Velvet Leaf
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Golden Guinea Vine
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Dianella Silver Streak ®
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Banana Bush
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Palm Black
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Small Bolwarra
- image Silky Myrtle
- image Pavetta lanceolata Weeping Brides bush
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Gardenia Narrow leaved
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Prickly alyxia
- image Wilkiea macrophylla Large Leafed Wilkea
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Large Pennywort
- image Indigofera australis Austral indigo
- image Golden Tip
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Rainforest Cassia
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Plum Myrtle
- image Small Leaf plum Myrtle
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Thin leaved Coondoo
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Wedge leaf Tuckeroo
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Wilkiea austroqueenslandica Smooth Wilkiea
- image Sophora fraseri Brush Sophora
- image Mackinlaya macrosciadia Forest umbrella tree
Dwarf Plum Pine
$21.90 ($17.75-$21.90 choose a size)
Dwarf Plum Pine is a member of an ancient family of conifers called Podocarps. The fruit of this specimen is much like it's tall cousin the Plum Pine - Podocarpus elatus, where the fleshy, edible part is actually a swollen stem that holds the seed. The 'fruit' is sweet and refreshing with a jelly like texture. Dwarf Plum Pine is a medium shrub or small tree usually around 2m, with glossy leaves that end in a sharp point. The trees are dioecious, meaning male and female parts are on separate trees. It is best to plant at least 3 seedling to ensure there is the likelihood of at least one female. The tree is found in sheltered East Coast locations and gullies in adjacent ranges.
North Bauple Nut
$19.75
The mauve flowers of this tree are beautiful, hanging from the trunk and the branches, followed by striking bunches of red fruits. Beautiful foliage and burgundy new growth make it an ornamental specimen for gardens and rainforest plantings. Native to Far North Queensland, it is surprisingly adaptable, as it is able to tolerate light frosts. The nuts have been known to be eaten but may contain small amounts of cyanide so caution should be exercised
Lilly Pilly Select
$14.90
A dense growing Lilly Pilly with psyllid resistance that forms an excellent screen or privacy wall. Growth is quick in good conditions and it can be clipped to shape, with bronze coloured new growth. White flowers form during summer followed by pink edible fruits. This variety is suitable for topiary. Best growth is see when the plant is grown in full sun.
White Bean
$14.90
White Bean is a fast growing tree found on the Eastern seaboard, north from the Clarence River, NSW to North Qld and into SE Asia. It has a handsome form, as the tree develops an open branched structure, and the compound leaves cluster at the ends of the branches giving the foliage a feathery look. Attaining a maximum height of 35m and a stem diameter of up to 80cm when fully grown, it is a wonderful addition to rainforest regeneration plantings. It is well adapted to dry periods and does like good drainage in wet times.
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Lilly Pilly - Rain Cherry
$18.75 ($7.50-$18.75 choose a size)
Attractive tree, masses of creamy-yellow flowers attract birds and are followed by bright pink-red fruits in profusion. They are edible and can be used in jams and preserves. Occurs as an understory tree in the rainforests of northern Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands.
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Red Cedar
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Fast growing deciduous rainforest tree highly valued for its timber in earlier days. Has now become rare. Easily grown on moist soils of eastern Australia.
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Lilly Pilly - Broad-leaved
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Cutting grown selection of the tasty and attractive Blue Lilly Pilly fruit. The delicate fruit is aromatic with a sweetish slightly gingery or turpentine flavour. Fruit is a distinctive blue colour.
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Cordyline - Narrow-leaved palm lily
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Medium cordyline found in all major types of rainforest north of to the McPherson Range. An elegant plant with purple to black fruit, well suited to smaller gardens to create a lush, rainforest feeling. It can grow in sun or shade, and in shallow or deep soils. Though it thrives in moist conditions, it is very drought tolerant; so an established plant should require little supplemental watering. Its tolerance of low light and water also make it an attractive and low-maintenance pot plant for indoors or outdoors.
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Lilly Pilly - Riberry
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The small leaved lilly pilly produces masses of red pear shaped fruit. Its handsome purple-red growth makes this lilly pilly one of the favourites as an Edible Hedge. The fruit exhibits a juicy but slightly acidic finish. Which is reminiscent of cinnamon and cloves. It is a very popular ingredient in wild-food dishes.
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Davidsons Plum - QLD
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Outstanding small tree for warm position or indoors. Large pinnate leaves make it a striking specimen plant. The edible purple fruits have bright red flesh and make excellent jam. Prefers some shade. Fruits in the autumn and winter. The plum-sized fruit hang from the crown in panicles. Native to North QLD and SE QLD rainforests.
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Fig - Sandpaper
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This small fig occurs along watercourses along the east coast of Australia. An attractive small tree with sandpapery leaves and edible fruit. Grows densely in full sun, less so in shade. Very good for stream bank stabilisation.
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Palm - Foxtail
$19.75 ($19.75-$29.00 choose a size)
First discovered in 1978 in a tiny area within Melville National Park, this palm is now one of the most widely planted in the world. Famous for it bushy fronds and slightly bulbous base, it lends a exotic, tropical look to landscaping. Able to survive heat, salt winds and seasonally dry conditions. Slow growing. If you ever have to remove them, the heart is also edible and quite palatable.
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Native Frangipani
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Clusters of very fragrant, cream flowers form on this fast growing, Australian native rainforest tree. Flowers form in spring, wafting scent right through the garden. Terminal flowers age from white to a golden yellow. Highly recommended hardy specimen tree, with a narrow upright form.
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Midyim Berry
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A low spreading shrub with dainty foliage developing a reddish shade in colder climates. The white tea tree like flowers are followed by sweet edible mauve-white speckled berries. A very decorative ground cover.
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