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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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Lilly Pilly Riberry
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Grevillea Silky Oak
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Brown Tamarind
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Tulipwood
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Red Cedar
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Native Olive
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Bleeding Heart
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Fig Sandpaper
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Fig Sandpaper Birds Eye
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Black bean
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Kurrajong
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Ivory Curl Tree
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Grevillea White Oak
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Native Mulberry
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Lilly Pilly Magenta Cherry
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Guioa
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Pink Euodia
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Blue Tongue
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Macaranga
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Brush box
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Native Frangipani
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Cudgerie
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Brown Kurrajong
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Native Rosella
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White Cedar
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Aspen White
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Red Ash
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Pencil Cedar
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Queensland Maple
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Celerywood
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Koda
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Lilly Pilly Giant water gum
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Swamp turpentine
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Tulip Satinwood
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Tuckeroo
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Turpentine tree
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White Bolly Gum
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Purple Pea Bush
- image Native Elderberry Sambucus australasica
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Red olive berry
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Batswing coral
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Red Kamala
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Water Gum
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Australian Daphne
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Cheese Tree
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Aspen Silver
- image Scentless Rosewood
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Queensland Hollywood
- image Myrsine variabilis Muttonwood
- image Whalebone Tree
- image Cissus antarctica Water Vine
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Pink Ash
- image Mallotus discolour Yellow Kamala
- image Rhodamnia rubescens Scrub Turpentine
- image Alectryon Hairy Birds Eye
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Hairy Clerodendrum
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Ribbonwood
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Jackwood
- image Rhodamnia maideniana Smooth Scrub Turpentine
- image Rhodamnia argentea Silver Myrtle
- image Pittosporum Hairy
- image Callicoma
- image Alectryon Beach
- image Aspen Hairy acronychia
- image Polyscias australiana Ivory Basswood
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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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Blue Quandong
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Lomandra hystrix Mat Rush
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Baeckea Clarence River
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Fig Sandpaper
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Fig Sandpaper Birds Eye
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Three veined Cryptocarya
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Lilly Pilly Weeping
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Sheoak Swamp
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Palm Fan
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Glossy Laurel
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Red Bean
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Melaleuca Swamp paperbark
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Guioa
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Foambark
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Blue flax lily
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Callistemon Weeping
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Lomandra longifolia Mat Rush
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Warrigal Greens Native Spinach
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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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Red Ash
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Sheoak River
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River Lily
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Lilly Pilly Creek
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Hard quandong
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Lilly Pilly Giant water gum
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Swamp turpentine
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Tuckeroo
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Fine leaved Tuckeroo
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Banana Bush
- image Yellow Pear fruit
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Red Kamala
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Water Gum
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Melaleuca Prickly leaved Tea Tree
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Australian Daphne
- image Myrsine variabilis Muttonwood
- image Whalebone Tree
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Tree Heath
- image Mallotus discolour Yellow Kamala
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Jackwood
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Lilly Pilly Broad leaved
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Lilly Pilly Rain Cherry
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Lilly Pilly Coolamon
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Blue Quandong
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Brown Tamarind
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Firewheel Tree
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Aniseed Myrtle
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Macadamia Bush Nut
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Golden penda
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Red Cedar
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Lilly Pilly Red Apple
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Yellow wood
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Lacebark
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Tamanu Calophyllum inophyllum
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Leichhardt Bean
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Lilly Pilly Paperbark Satinash
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Kurrajong
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Three veined Cryptocarya
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Lilly Pilly Weeping
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Lilly Pilly Aussie Compact
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Palm Foxtail
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Cassowary Pine
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Flame Tree x Lacebark Brachychiton
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Native Tamarind
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Glossy Laurel
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Plum Pine
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Red Bean
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Fig Deciduous
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Foambark
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Black Apple
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Fig Small Leaved
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Teak or Crows Ash
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Hoop Pine
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Tree Waratah
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Flame Tree
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Snow wood
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Flame Tree Grafted
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Bunya Nut
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Fig Moreton Bay
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Atherton Oak
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Lilly Pilly Blue
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Flame on Bottle
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Plum Pine Female Cutting
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Kauri Pine Qld
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Native Wisteria
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Red Bauple Nut
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Fig Rusty
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Fig Strangler
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Eumundi Quandong
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Bower Of Beauty Pink
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Booyong Black
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Fig Hills Weeping
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Rosewood
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Black Walnut Australian Native
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Palm Kentia
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Brush Cassia
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Palm Alexander
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Black Plum
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White Beech
- image Onion Cedar
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Native Wampee
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Lilly Pilly Creek
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Hard quandong
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Olivers Sassafras
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Booyong White
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Rose Myrtle
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Brown Silky Oak
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Fine leaved Tuckeroo
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Palm Cabbage
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Hairy Walnut
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Palm Black
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Rose Maple
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Coachwood
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Lilly Pilly Brush Cherry
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Lilly Pilly Onionwood Satinash
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Lilly PIlly Sour Cherry
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Lignum vitae
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Yellow Cheesewood
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Hairy Rosewood
- image Yellow Pear fruit
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Silky Beech
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Red Carabeen
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Tuckeroo Small leaved
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Barklya
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Fig White
- image Pigeonberry Ash
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Aspen Silver
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Cheese Tree Umbrella
- image Lilly Pilly Purple Cherry
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Lilly Pilly River Cherry
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Tuckeroo Brown
- image Alectryon Hairy Birds Eye
- image Dinosperma erythrococcum Tingletongue
- image Corduroy Tamarind
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White Lace Flower
- image Sloanea australis Maidens Blush
- image Black leaved Silky Oak
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Flintwood
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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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Midyim Berry
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Lomandra hystrix Mat Rush
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Baeckea Clarence River
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Native Ginger
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Finger Lime
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Native Ginger Atherton Red Back
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Native Gardenia
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Palm Foxtail
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Tree Fern
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Palm Fan
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Blue flax lily
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Gymea Lily
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Richmond Birdwing Vine
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Lomandra longifolia Mat Rush
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Native Violet
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Blue Tongue
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Bolwarra
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Native Ginger Wavy Leaf
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Cunjevoi Lily
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Finger Lime Judys Everbearing
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Finger Lime Jali Red
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Finger Lime Alstonville
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Mountain Pepper Female
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Staghorn Fern (30cm)
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Warrigal Greens Native Spinach
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Palm Walking Stick
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Blueberry Ash Prima Donna
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Lilly Pilly Cherry Puff
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Southern Swamp Orchid
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Native Wampee Gregs
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Stream Lily
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Prickly Rasp Fern
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Cut leaf mint Bush
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Blueberry ash
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Hoya
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Cycad Burrawang
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Palm Bangalow
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Lilly Pilly Cascade
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River Lily
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Graptophyllum Holly leaved
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Fern Leaved Tamarind
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Cycad Scaly Zamia
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Rough Maidenhair Fern
- image Cycad Macrozamia johnsonii
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Birds Nest Fern
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Little Evodia
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Golden Guinea Vine
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Palm Cabbage
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Palm Black
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Velvet Leaf
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Red fruited Saw sedge
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Small Bolwarra
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Banana Bush
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Dianella Silver Streak ®
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Silky Myrtle
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Large Pennywort
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Gardenia Narrow leaved
- image Indigofera australis Austral indigo
- image Pavetta lanceolata Weeping Brides bush
- image Golden Tip
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Rainforest Cassia
- image Wilkiea macrophylla Large Leafed Wilkea
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Prickly alyxia
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Plum Myrtle
- image Small Leaf plum Myrtle
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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
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Thin leaved Coondoo
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.
Dwarf Plum Pine
$19.90 ($17.75-$19.90 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
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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Davidson Plum NSW
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An outstanding small tree that prefers warm conditions and some shade. The sour purple fruits have bright red flesh that makes excellent jam. Davidsonia jerseyana is the southern form, it fruits in the summer months and is generally a smaller plant than the northern Davidsonia pruriens. The fruit form on the trunk of the tree and it is striking in full fruit.
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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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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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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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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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Lilly Pilly - Coolamon
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A rainforest tree which is a threatened species in the wild. Plant in rich soil with adequate moisture. Attractive red-pink flowers with large white edible fruit formed on the trunk and branches called cauliflorous fruit development. The fruit has the freshness of Granny Smith apples with a somewhat dry texture. Likes to grow in riverine and gully like conditions in low altitude locations. The Coolamon reaches up to 25 - 40m with a 60cm trunk, acts as an excellent riparian zone rehabilitator
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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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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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Blue Quandong
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Fast growing rainforest tree. The species is well regarded for its timber and as a key in regenerating rainforest. The fruit of this species is round and blue, between 20 and 30 mm across, and has a seed with deep convolutions in its shell. These are eaten whole by cassowaries, woompoo pigeon and spectacled flying foxes, which pass the nut undamaged. A large tree up to 50 metres tall, usually with elaborate buttressed roots. Flowers, fruit, foliage and shape make this an ideal tree for large gardens or parks.
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Brown Tamarind
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A good shade tree with glossy, dark green foliage. Needs well-drained soil in a partially shaded position. Makes an excellent indoor plant. Leaves are pale grey and have a felt-like feel underneath. Fast growing pioneer for bush regeneration projects
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