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Rainforest Trees
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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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Lilly Pilly Riberry
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Grevillea Silky Oak
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Fig Sandpaper
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Red Cedar
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Red Ash
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Native Frangipani
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Cudgerie
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Bleeding Heart
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Swamp turpentine
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Lilly Pilly Giant water gum
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Brown Tamarind
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Kurrajong
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Brush box
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Native Olive
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Guioa
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Lilly Pilly Magenta Cherry
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Queensland Maple
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Aspen White
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Pink Euodia
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Fig Sandpaper Birds Eye
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Native Mulberry
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Ivory Curl Tree
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Black bean
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Blue Tongue
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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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Tulipwood
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Grevillea White Oak
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Native Elderberry Sambucus australasica
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Celerywood
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Pencil Cedar
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Koda
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Tulip Satinwood
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Red olive berry
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Turpentine tree
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Tuckeroo
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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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Australian Daphne
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Jackwood
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Red Kamala
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Ribbonwood
- image Rhodamnia maideniana Smooth Scrub Turpentine
- image Myrsine variabilis Muttonwood
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Hairy Clerodendrum
- image Mallotus discolour Yellow Kamala
- image Rhodamnia rubescens Scrub Turpentine
- image Cissus antarctica Water Vine
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Pink Ash
- image Alectryon Beach
- image Rhodamnia argentea Silver Myrtle
- image Pittosporum Hairy
- image Alectryon Hairy Birds Eye
- 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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Red Ash
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Sheoak Swamp
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Lilly Pilly Weeping
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Three veined Cryptocarya
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Swamp turpentine
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Lilly Pilly Giant water gum
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Red Bean
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Glossy Laurel
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Sheoak River
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Melaleuca Swamp paperbark
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Foambark
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Guioa
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Lomandra longifolia Mat Rush
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Fig Sandpaper Birds Eye
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Palm Fan
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Warrigal Greens Native Spinach
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Blue Quandong
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Stream Lily
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Banksia Coastal Prostrate
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Baeckea Clarence River
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Callistemon Weeping
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Eucalyptus Forest Red Gum
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Lomandra hystrix Mat Rush
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Blue flax lily
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River Lily
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Lilly Pilly Creek
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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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Australian Daphne
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Jackwood
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Red Kamala
- image Myrsine variabilis Muttonwood
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Tree Heath
- image Mallotus discolour Yellow Kamala
- image Yellow Pear fruit
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Lilly Pilly Rain Cherry
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Lilly Pilly Broad leaved
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Red Cedar
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Palm Foxtail
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Fig Small Leaved
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Lilly Pilly Weeping
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Atherton Oak
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Flame Tree x Lacebark Brachychiton
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Fig Rusty
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Snow wood
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Macadamia Bush Nut
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Yellow wood
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Kauri Pine Qld
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Tamanu Calophyllum inophyllum
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Three veined Cryptocarya
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Hoop Pine
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Lilly Pilly Red Apple
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Brown Tamarind
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Lilly Pilly Paperbark Satinash
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Kurrajong
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Red Bean
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Flame Tree
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Glossy Laurel
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Red Bauple Nut
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Leichhardt Bean
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Lacebark
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Cassowary Pine
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Teak or Crows Ash
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Foambark
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Fig Deciduous
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Golden penda
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White Beech
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Black Apple
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Rosewood
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Fig Moreton Bay
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Eumundi Quandong
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Aniseed Myrtle
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Flame Tree Grafted
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Bunya Nut
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Lilly Pilly Coolamon
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Firewheel Tree
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Blue Quandong
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Tree Waratah
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Flame on Bottle
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Lilly Pilly Aussie Compact
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Plum Pine
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Native Wisteria
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Plum Pine Female Cutting
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Lilly Pilly Blue
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Native Tamarind
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Fig Strangler
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Booyong Black
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Bower Of Beauty Pink
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Black Walnut Australian Native
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Palm Kentia
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Brush Cassia
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Black Plum
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Lilly Pilly Creek
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Hard quandong
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Olivers Sassafras
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Palm Alexander
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Rose Myrtle
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Fig Hills Weeping
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Lilly Pilly Onionwood Satinash
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Fine leaved Tuckeroo
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Palm Cabbage
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Native Wampee
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Brown Silky Oak
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Yellow Cheesewood
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Hairy Walnut
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Lilly Pilly Brush Cherry
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Rose Maple
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Booyong White
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Fig White
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Lignum vitae
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Palm Black
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Lilly PIlly Sour Cherry
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Coachwood
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Red Carabeen
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Lilly Pilly River Cherry
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- image Pigeonberry Ash
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Cheese Tree Umbrella
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Aspen Silver
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Silky Beech
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Barklya
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Tuckeroo Small leaved
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Tuckeroo Brown
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Hairy Rosewood
- image Corduroy Tamarind
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Flintwood
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White Lace Flower
- image Sloanea australis Maidens Blush
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Coogera
- image Alectryon Hairy Birds Eye
- image Dinosperma erythrococcum Tingletongue
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Steelwood
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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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Midyim Berry
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Finger Lime
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Richmond Birdwing Vine
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Davidsons Plum QLD
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Staghorn Fern (30cm)
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Palm Foxtail
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Finger Lime Jali Red
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Native Ginger
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Native Violet
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Graptophyllum Holly leaved
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Native Gardenia
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Cunjevoi Lily
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Palm Walking Stick
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Native Ginger Atherton Red Back
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Lomandra longifolia Mat Rush
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Lilly Pilly Cascade
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Finger Lime Judys Everbearing
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Finger Lime Alstonville
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Mountain Pepper Female
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Palm Fan
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Tree Fern
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Warrigal Greens Native Spinach
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Lilly Pilly Cherry Puff
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Southern Swamp Orchid
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Blueberry Ash Prima Donna
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Prickly Rasp Fern
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Bolwarra
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Blue Tongue
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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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Baeckea Clarence River
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Lomandra hystrix Mat Rush
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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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Hoya
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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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Cut leaf mint Bush
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River Lily
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Rough Maidenhair Fern
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Red fruited Saw sedge
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Little Evodia
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Golden Guinea Vine
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Palm Cabbage
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Velvet Leaf
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Banana Bush
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Palm Black
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Small Bolwarra
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Prickly alyxia
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Gardenia Narrow leaved
- image Silky Myrtle
- image Pavetta lanceolata Weeping Brides bush
- image Wilkiea macrophylla Large Leafed Wilkea
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Dianella Silver Streak ®
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Large Pennywort
- image Indigofera australis Austral indigo
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Plum Myrtle
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Rainforest Cassia
- image Small Leaf plum Myrtle
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Thin leaved Coondoo
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Wilkiea austroqueenslandica Smooth Wilkiea
- image Sophora fraseri Brush Sophora
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Wedge leaf Tuckeroo
- image Mackinlaya macrosciadia Forest umbrella tree
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
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.
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 - 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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Lilly Pilly - Rain Cherry
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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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Grevillea Silky Oak
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Very fast growing slender tree with ferny foliage and bright yellow toothbrush flowers. Grows in a wide range of conditions including southern and inland areas. Good indoor plant.
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Lilly Pilly - Broad-leaved
$12.75 ($4.90-$18.75 choose a size)
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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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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Finger Lime
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This is a seedling selection from our grafted varieties. They have a thin skin that ranges in colour from green, yellow, red, purple to even a black. The inner cells are cylindrical balls filled with lime juice. Very hardy. The bushy thorny foliage is a perfect protective habitat for small birds to nest in addition to their fruits.
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Richmond Birdwing Vine
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A large vine of temperate subtropical rainforests. The vine attracts one of the largest and most spectacular butterflies the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly which is considered an endangered species. This is the only food source for the catterpillars of this butterfly and is essential for the survival of the species. Plants require support on which to climb, a trellis, a fence or over a stump.
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Davidsons Plum - QLD
$14.75 ($4.90-$99.00 choose a size)
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
$2.75 ($2.75-$18.75 choose a size)
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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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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