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Pages in category "Trees of Australia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,181 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, also known as RFK, is an identification key giving details—including images, taxonomy, descriptions, range, habitat, and other information—of almost all species of flowering plants (i.e. trees, shrubs, vines, forbs, grasses and sedges, epiphytes, palms and pandans) found in tropical rainforests of Australia, with the exception of most orchids which ...
Angophora costata, commonly known as Sydney red gum, rusty gum or smooth-barked apple, is a species of tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. Reaching 30 m (100 ft) in height, the species has distinctive smooth bark that is pinkish or orange-brown when new and fades to grey with age.
There are 69 species of cycad from 4 genera and 3 families of eastern and northern Australia, with a few in south-western Western Australia and central Australia [clarification needed]. Native conifers are distributed across 3 taxonomic families ( Cupressaceae , Podocarpaceae , Araucariaceae ), 14 genera and 43 species, of which 39 are endemic.
Xanthorrhoea australis, the grass tree or austral grasstree, [1] is an Australian plant. It is the most commonly seen species of the genus Xanthorrhoea . Its trunk can grow up to several metres tall and is often branched.
In Australia, potted native Wollemi pines have been promoted as a Christmas tree. [24] It is also proving to be more adaptable and cold-hardy than its restricted temperate - subtropical , humid distribution would suggest, tolerating temperatures between −5 and 45 °C (23 and 113 °F), with reports, from Japan and the USA, that it can survive ...
Eucalyptus pauciflora, commonly known as snow gum, cabbage gum or white sally, [3] is a species of tree or mallee that is native to eastern Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves, flower buds in clusters of between seven and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped, conical or hemispherical fruit.
Glenelg North, Australia A tree where the proclamation of the establishment of Government of the province of South Australia was read in 1836. The Explorers Tree: Blue Mountains ash (Eucalyptus oreades) Katoomba, Australia Marked by the explorers who crossed the Blue Mountains (New South Wales) in 1813. Jacaranda of University of Sydney