By Geoff Holloway Black Bean (Castanospermum australe) grows to 40m high and over a metre in diameter, dense crown with large green glossy foliage and large bean like fruit. The heartwood ranges from dark brown to chocolate shades, deepening to…
By Geoff Holloway Black Tea Tree (Melaleuca bracteata) is a bushy-foliaged, small to medium tree, normally 5–8 m tall but occasionally taller. Its bark is very rough and dark grey in colour. The leaves are fine and crowded together around the…
By Geoff Holloway Blue Gum or Forest Red Gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis) Probably the most recognized and wide spread of the eucalypts in the greater Ipswich area. They are particularly numerous along river and creek banks and can grow to 45…
By Geoff Holloway Blue Quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis) Common names – Blue Fig, Blueberry Ash, White Quandong and the trade name of Silver Quandong. A large tree to 35 metres with a large canopy, growing in rainforests from Northern NSW to…
By Geoff Holloway Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) is a medium sized tree to 25 metres, grows in the brigalow belt from northern NSW to north Queensland including inland and coastal areas. A long lived slow growing acacia, heavily logged early in…
By Geoff Holloway Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) This is a large evergreen conifer, which in the mature tree has a dome-shaped crown defined by dense tufts of branchlets with the foliage at the branch ends. The dark green glossy leaves…
By Geoff Holloway Burdekin Plum (Pleiogynium timorense), also known as Tulip Plum, is an Australian native rainforest tree growing to 12 metres in garden settings, and up to 20 metres in its natural habitat on Queensland’s east coast. The trunk…
Coastal Cypress (Callitris columellaris) is a species of coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to most of Australia. Common names include white cypress, white cypress-pine, Murray River cypress-pine, northern cypress-pine and Bribie Island Pine. The tree can grow to…
Crow’s Ash or Australian Teak (Flindersia australis) grows on the east coast of Queensland and NSW and can reach 40 metres, an attractive shade tree planted in parks and gardens. A member of the Rutaceae Family and the Flindersia Genus…
By Geoff Holloway Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) can be found in tropical and sub-tropical rainforests from northern NSW to Cape York. The Hoop Pine is a conifer from the Araucariaceae family which existed 220 million years ago on Gondwanaland, before…
