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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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Grevillea Silky Oak
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Fig Sandpaper
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Brown Tamarind
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Tulipwood
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Red Cedar
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Lilly Pilly Riberry
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Black bean
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Native Olive
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Fig Sandpaper Birds Eye
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Native Frangipani
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Grevillea White Oak
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Bleeding Heart
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Kurrajong
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Ivory Curl Tree
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Native Mulberry
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Lilly Pilly Magenta Cherry
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Blue Tongue
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Pink Euodia
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Guioa
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Macaranga
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Brush box
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Swamp turpentine
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Tulip Satinwood
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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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Celerywood
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Pencil Cedar
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Queensland Maple
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Koda
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Lilly Pilly Giant water gum
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Tuckeroo
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Turpentine tree
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White Bolly Gum
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Red olive berry
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Purple Pea Bush
- image Native Elderberry Sambucus australasica
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Batswing coral
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Water Gum
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Red Kamala
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Australian Daphne
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Cheese Tree
- image Scentless Rosewood
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Aspen Silver
- image Myrsine variabilis Muttonwood
- image Whalebone Tree
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Queensland Hollywood
- image Cissus antarctica Water Vine
- image Alectryon Hairy Birds Eye
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Hairy Clerodendrum
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Jackwood
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Pink Ash
- image Mallotus discolour Yellow Kamala
- image Rhodamnia rubescens Scrub Turpentine
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Ribbonwood
- image Rhodamnia argentea Silver Myrtle
- image Pittosporum Hairy
- image Rhodamnia maideniana Smooth Scrub Turpentine
- image Polyscias australiana Ivory Basswood
- image Alectryon Beach
- image Callicoma
- image Aspen Hairy acronychia
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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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Lomandra hystrix Mat Rush
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Blue Quandong
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Sheoak River
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Fig Sandpaper Birds Eye
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Baeckea Clarence River
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Lilly Pilly Weeping
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Three veined Cryptocarya
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Sheoak Swamp
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Palm Fan
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Melaleuca Swamp paperbark
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Glossy Laurel
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Red Bean
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Blue flax lily
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Guioa
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Callistemon Weeping
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Lomandra longifolia Mat Rush
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Eucalyptus Forest Red Gum
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Foambark
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Swamp turpentine
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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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Red Ash
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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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Fine leaved Tuckeroo
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Tuckeroo
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Banana Bush
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Water Gum
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Red Kamala
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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 Coolamon
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Brown Tamarind
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Lilly Pilly Rain Cherry
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Macadamia Bush Nut
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Aniseed Myrtle
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Blue Quandong
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Golden penda
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Firewheel Tree
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Red Cedar
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Lacebark
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Yellow wood
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Lilly Pilly Red Apple
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Tamanu Calophyllum inophyllum
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Lilly Pilly Weeping
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Leichhardt Bean
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Three veined Cryptocarya
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Native Tamarind
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Lilly Pilly Paperbark Satinash
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Kurrajong
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Lilly Pilly Aussie Compact
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Hoop Pine
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Palm Foxtail
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Plum Pine
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Cassowary Pine
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Fig Deciduous
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Glossy Laurel
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Red Bean
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Fig Rusty
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Fig Small Leaved
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Flame Tree x Lacebark Brachychiton
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Fig Moreton Bay
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Teak or Crows Ash
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Flame Tree Grafted
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Foambark
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Black Apple
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Flame Tree
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Snow wood
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Bunya Nut
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Tree Waratah
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Atherton Oak
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Lilly Pilly Blue
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Kauri Pine Qld
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Plum Pine Female Cutting
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Flame on Bottle
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Native Wisteria
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Red Bauple Nut
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Fig Strangler
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Bower Of Beauty Pink
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Eumundi Quandong
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Booyong Black
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Rosewood
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Fig Hills Weeping
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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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Native Wampee
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White Beech
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Lilly Pilly Creek
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Black Plum
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Hard quandong
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Booyong White
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Olivers Sassafras
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Rose Myrtle
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Fine leaved Tuckeroo
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Brown Silky Oak
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Palm Cabbage
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Hairy Walnut
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Rose Maple
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Palm Black
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Coachwood
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Lilly Pilly Brush Cherry
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Lilly PIlly Sour Cherry
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Lilly Pilly Onionwood Satinash
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Yellow Cheesewood
- image Yellow Pear fruit
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Hairy Rosewood
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Lignum vitae
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Silky Beech
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Fig White
- image Pigeonberry Ash
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Red Carabeen
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Barklya
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Tuckeroo Small leaved
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Cheese Tree Umbrella
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Aspen Silver
- image Lilly Pilly Purple Cherry
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Lilly Pilly River Cherry
- image Alectryon Hairy Birds Eye
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Tuckeroo Brown
- image Dinosperma erythrococcum Tingletongue
- image Corduroy Tamarind
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White Lace Flower
- image Sloanea australis Maidens Blush
- image Black leaved Silky Oak
- image Stenocarpus salignus Scrub Beefwood
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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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Finger Lime
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Native Ginger
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Native Ginger Atherton Red Back
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Baeckea Clarence River
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Palm Fan
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Native Gardenia
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Palm Foxtail
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Blue Tongue
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Richmond Birdwing Vine
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Blue flax lily
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Bolwarra
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Graptophyllum Holly leaved
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Palm Walking Stick
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Native Ginger Wavy Leaf
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Lomandra longifolia Mat Rush
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Finger Lime Judys Everbearing
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Prickly Rasp Fern
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Cunjevoi Lily
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Native Violet
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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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Tree Fern
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Gymea Lily
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Southern Swamp Orchid
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Lilly Pilly Cherry Puff
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Blueberry Ash Prima Donna
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Native Wampee Gregs
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Cut leaf mint Bush
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Stream Lily
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Blueberry ash
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Cycad Burrawang
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Hoya
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Lilly Pilly Cascade
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Palm Bangalow
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Cycad Scaly Zamia
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River Lily
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Fern Leaved Tamarind
- image Native pomegranate
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Rough Maidenhair Fern
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Birds Nest Fern
- image Cycad Macrozamia johnsonii
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Palm Cabbage
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Little Evodia
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Golden Guinea Vine
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Velvet Leaf
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Red fruited Saw sedge
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Palm Black
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Dianella Silver Streak ®
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Silky Myrtle
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Small Bolwarra
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Banana Bush
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Large Pennywort
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Rainforest Cassia
- image Indigofera australis Austral indigo
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Gardenia Narrow leaved
- image Pavetta lanceolata Weeping Brides bush
- image Golden Tip
- image Wilkiea macrophylla Large Leafed Wilkea
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Prickly alyxia
- image Small Leaf plum Myrtle
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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
$17.90 ($17.75-$17.90 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
$19.90 ($4.90-$24.75 choose a size)
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
$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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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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Midyim Berry
$12.75 ($4.90-$19.75 choose a size)
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 - 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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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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Lomandra hystrix - Mat Rush
$13.75 ($2.45-$17.75 choose a size)
This hardy Bushfood plant has arching strap-like leaves and yellow-green flower spikes in spring. Suited to wet soils and is ideal for use around water features. It prefers part shade though will tolerate full sun. It can also be used indoors and will accept a wide range of soils and climates. Useful for drainage swales and erosion control. Like its cousin Lomandra longifolia the base of the leaves make a tasty snack. Pull the leaves out from the base of the clump and chew the white fleshy base of them, they taste a little like sweet peas. The lusher the growing conditions, the better the taste. Flowers are high in nectar and can be soaked in water for a flavoured, refreshing drink. Mature seed can be ground into a flour to make a damper. The strap-like leaves make great weaving material too.
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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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Lilly Pilly - Rain Cherry
$18.75
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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