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Duboisia myoporoides, or corkwood, is a shrub or tree native to high-rainfall areas on the margins of rainforest in eastern Australia. It has a thick and corky bark. [ 1 ] The leaves are obovate to elliptic in shape, 4–15 cm long and 1–4 cm wide.
A common tree on lowland and some mountain rainforests. Very common on sand in littoral rainforests. The corky bark assists in protection from fire. It grows from Kioloa (35° S) near Batemans Bay in southern New South Wales to the islands of Moreton Bay (27° S), in south eastern Queensland.
Duboisia (commonly called corkwood tree) [citation needed] is a genus of small perennial shrubs and trees that grow up to 14 metres (46 feet) tall, with extremely light wood and a thick corky bark. There are four species; all occur in Australia, and one also occurs in New Caledonia. The alternate, glabrous leaves are narrow and elliptical.
Ackama paniculosa, synonym Caldcluvia paniculosa, known as the soft corkwood, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It occurs from Ourimbah, Central Coast (New South Wales) at 33° S to Eungella National Park (20° S) in tropical Queensland. Other common names include corkwood, rose-leaf marara, brown alder and sugarbark.
Corkwood is a common name of a number of plants: Ackama paniculosa , a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family Annona glabra , found in the West Indies
Erythrina vespertilio is a tree native to north and north-east Australia. Its common names are grey corkwood , bat's wing coral tree , [ 1 ] yulbah [ 2 ] and the more ambiguous " bean tree ". In the Western Desert language it is known as ininti and the in Arrernte and Anmatyerr it is known as atywerety .
Hakea ivoryi, commonly known as Ivory's hakea, [2] corkwood or the corkbark tree, [3] is a shrub or small tree in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to an area in the South West region of Queensland and the north west of New South Wales.
Hakea divaricata, commonly known as needlewood, [2] corkbark tree [3] or fork-leaved corkwood, [4] is a tree or shrub in the family Proteaceae native to an area in central Australia. A slow growing species with up to 120 showy cream to greenish-yellow flowers in long racemes from June to November.