Australian Plants

Acacias are found on the Wattles page!

Abrophyllum ornans

Shrub to 6m with large leaves and prominent veins. Small yellow flowers are followed by clusters of purplish - black berries in winter.

Acmena hemilampra

Blush Satinash. Small bushy rainforest tree with brilliant bronze new growth. White globular fruit.

Agathis robusta

Kauri Pine. A distinctive, stately, and erect tree to over 20m high. The leaves are shiny and stiff. The bark is a greyish colour with a distinctive appearance. The Rockhampton Botanical Gardens (northside) has many large specimens planted in rows.

Alectryon coriaceus

Beach Bird's Eye. A very spreading shrub to 6m high. The broad leaflets are discolorous - dark glossy green above and lighter underneath. Clusters of flowers appear on the outside in summer followed by fruits which open to expose a red aril around a black seed.

Aleurites moluccana

Candle Nut

Allocasuarina littoralis

(formerly Casuarina) Black Sheoak. Tree to 7m. Separate male and female plants. Male flowers, shown in photograph, form on the ends of the leaves in winter giving the tree the appearance of being "on fire". Insignificant female flowers are also red, formed along branches. Small woody fruiting cones follow. In disturbed areas it germinates like hair on a cat's back and can form thickets. Parrots eat the seeds. Leaf litter can hinder growth and germination of other plants.

Allocasuarina torulosa

This is a small tree with corky bark. It can be easily distinguished at most times of the year by the presence of reddish new growth in the leaves.

Alloxylon flammeum

(formerly Oreocallis wickhamii) Tree Waratah. Spectacular red waratah-like flowers outside the foliage in Spring. Rainforest tree.

Alocasia brisbanensis (formerly Alocasia macrorrhiza)

Cunjevoi. An aroid to 2m tall. Very large leaves to 40cm wide. Small flowers in a spike are followed by red berries in summer. Plant needs lots of water, and all parts of it are poisonous. Rainforest plant.

Alpinia coerulea

An Australian native ginger. A clumping plant with upright arching stems to 2 m, having long fleshy green leaves. Small white flowers on the stem ends are followed by a raceme of blue fruits, each about 1.5 cm diameter. The fruits can be easily opened and the pith around the seeds eaten - it has a refreshing lemon taste. The seeds can be spat out.

Amorphophallus capanulatus

Stinking Snakeskin lilly. A very interesting plant. An aroid which dies back to an underground tuber before winter and reappears in summer. The stems are rough, patterned like a snake skin, and may be 1.5m high, with divided leaves to 1m across. The photographed plant has a total of 6 stems of varying sizes from the one tuber. It has not yet flowered after 18 months in the ground, but usually the flowers produce a bad odour. These are followed by red berries. A rainforest plant. There is also a sweet smelling species with smooth stems -Amorphophallus galbra.

Angophora woodsiana

Medium to tall woodland tree, with a slender trunk and grey scaly bark and opposite leaves. Flowers prolifically in December. Angophoras look exactly like eucalypts, except they are missing the bud caps which eucalypyts shed as flowers appear.

Aotus lanigera

Small shrub to 2m, often in understorey. Yellow pea flowers along stem in September/ October. Fine foliage.

Auranticarpa rhombifolium - formerly called Pittosporum rhombifolium.

Diamond Pittosporum; White Bolly. A small rainforest tree with toothed leaves. Masses of white flowers appear in summer, followed by masses of showy orange fruits in Autumn.

Araucaria bidwillii

Bunya Pine Photograph couretesy Dot Crane

Austromyrtus dulcis

Midyim