Native Trees

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The trees listed below are available in minimum quantities of 4 of each type. Tubestock is propagated in specially designed root pruning tubes 125mm deep by 50mm square. The stock is sun-hardened and ready to be planted out or grown-on.

Melaleuca leucadendra - Fine Leaf Melaleuca

Evergreen tree with weeping habit and whitish papery bark. Bears long creamy-white flowers in bottlebrush spikes. Ideal for wet boggy areas.

Callistemon viminalis - Weeping bottlebrush

This callistemon is a very valuable tree for landscaping, as a screen plant, in erosion control or as a specimen or street tree. Bright scarlet red flowers appear in late spring and autumn and smaller numbers of flowers all year.

Allocasuarina torulosa - Forest Sheoak

Ornamental, slender, upright, medium sized tree with thick, corky bark and large flat topped seed pods. Handsome weeping tree for home gardens and parks. Suitable to most soils and situations. Fast growing and tolerant of moderate frosts.

Melaleuca styphelioides - Prickly-leaved Tea Tree

This plant has peeling, light tan bark that forms as extremely thin sheets, papery, and the layers exfoliate in large sheets. As the bark ages, it turns charcoal, but most often the bark is peeled away before that occurs.

Melaleuca linariifolia - Snow in Summer

Paper-barked tree, with dense and rounded crown of dull green leaves. White flowers in fluffy spikes from February to July.

Eucalyptus grandis - Flooded Gum

One of the noblest of the large eucalypts. Originates from high rainfall regions of Aust. Can reach up to 60m. Smooth whitish or blue-grey bark. Clusters of white blossoms.

Brachychiton rupestris - 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.

Eucalyptus pilularis - Blackbutt

A tall eucalypt to 30m. Is an excellent choice for a tall windbreak. Good timber tree

Eucalyptus tereticornus - Forest Red Gum

Frequently tall with a thick trunk but also occurs with a short trunk and heavily branched crown. Very common Eucalypt along river banks of eastern Austalia. A Koala food tree.

Grevillea banksii forsteri - Red Silky Oak

Attractive, bushy shrub with divided grey-green leaves. It bears cylindrical spikes of large red bird attracting flowers all year round.

Callistemon viminalis - Ricks Red

Bright red brushes that hang to the ground and in warmer climates flowers for most of the year. Makes an excellent speciman plant and a nice screen. Attracts honeyeaters to the garden. Frost hardy.

Eucalyptus saligna - Sydney Bluegum

This fast growing elegant eucalpt is valuable in plantation forestry. The white bark is often rough at base and smooth above. Favours hill slope locations and warm humid conditions. Natural distribution along the coast and nearby ranges of New South Wales and Queensland.

Eucalyptus staigeriana - Lemon-scented Ironbark

The complex essential oil is distilled from the leaves and used for flavouring and aromatherapy. The whole leaf is also used as a bushfood spice and herb-tea ingredient. It is used like a bay-leaf in savory cooking, and is also used in confectionery and teas. It has a fruity-lemon flavor, with a rosemary-like edge. A small rough barked sclerophyll tree that grows naturally in pure stands on hills in the Palmer River region of Cape York. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_staigeriana

Callistemon polandii - Gold-tipped bottlebrush

This is a hardy adaptable shrub that has beautiful long lasting bright red flowers with golden tips. Useful as a hedge, windbreak or screening plant it will attract small birds to the garden.

Melaleuca thymifolia -Thyme Honey Myrtle

The species forms a small shrub rarely exceeding 1 meter in height. The flowers occur in clusters on the older stems and have a distinctive "claw" configuration which clearly shows the united stamens that are a feature of the genus. The flower colour is usually mauve or purple

Crinum pedunculatum - River Lily

A large lily that makes a great understory plant beneath eucalypts. Strap type leaves 2m long by 15cm wide. The white pleasantly perfumed flowers occur from November to March, are about 10cm across in clusters of 10-25.

Melaleuca alternifolia - Tea tree oil tree

this shrub has fine foliage and profuse white flowers appearing in spring/summer. Plants respond to pruning and can be grown as a hedge or screen. This species is grown for tea-tree oil extraction. 3m

Eucalyptus citriodora - Lemon scented gum

A clean straight tree of graceful appearance but often sparsely canopied. The smooth bark is a pinkish grey, and the leaves have a strong lemon scented odour when crushed.

Eucalyptus dunnii - Dunns White Gum

A tall spreading gum, native to Norht Eastern NSW. The bark is shed in long strips revealing a smooth white bark, but is often scaly and corky at the trunk base. Highly recommended for quick growing forestry plantations.