SPECIES INFORMATION, RESOURCES, FACTSHEETS:

Native Plants for Top End Gardens, Nicholas Smith and Greening Australia

Native Plants Of Northern Australia, John Brock

The Food We Eat, Gary Fox and Murray Garde

Creating Habitat for Darwin Gardens, City of Darwin

Recommended Landscaping Species, Top End Native Plant Society (TENPS)

Grow me instead (PDF)

Wikipedia NT Flora

NT Flora database

Gardens for Wildlife, City of Darwin

Land for Wildlife, Greening Australia

Waterwise Natives, Living Water Smart

Waterwise Gardening in the Top End, PAWA.

Thank you to all those who generously contributed images to create this NT Native Plant resource:

ALL IMAGES SUBJECT TO STRICT COPYRIGHT. Permissions granted for image use on the TNP Website does not constitute transfer of rights or permit reproduction, reuse or download to any third parties. Image copyright is retained by the owner.

Donald Simpson - Some Magnetic Island Plants

Gary Fox

Nic Smith - Nelumbo Botaniks

Top End Native Plant Society

NT Government - FloraNT, Department of Environment and Natural Resources

ANBG - Australian National Botanic Gardens. Photos downloaded from the Australian Plant Image Index (APII)  

CANBR - Australian Tropical Rainforest Key, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research

ALA - Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) under Creative Commons Attribution Licence. ALA Citizen Science initiative

NWP - North West Plants

Jess Derham - Plants Direct NT

Ian Morris

EUCLID - Eucalypts of Australia, Fourth Edition, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research

Karen Johnson - The Landscape Studio, Darwin.

Eliza Dobson – TNP Photos


TNP references ‘Preferred trees for Darwin’ (Medium/High) in establishing cyclone resistance:

  • Clark, M.J., McGregor, J. & Parsons, B. (2018), An assessment of tree damage and resilience in Darwin parks following Tropical Cyclone Marcus March 17th 2018. City of Darwin, Darwin

  • An assessment of tree susceptibility and resistance to cyclones, Greening Australia Greg Calvert, Senior Environmental Scientist, 2011

  • James Cook University. “Responses of some species commonly grown in Northern Queensland” G. Calvert, B. Jackes, J. Roach, G. Stocker et al., N. Tucker, and report to Cairns City Council on Cyclone “Winifred”, covering cyclones in Queensland and the Northern Territory since Althea in 1971

  • Native Plants for Top End Gardens, Nicholas Smith, Greening Australia & Northern Territory Government, 2011.

  • Cyclone Resistance & Preferred Plant List
    https://www.darwin.nt.gov.au

  • Establishing a Resilient Urban Forest for Darwin
    https://www.darwin.nt.gov.au

  • An assessment of tree damage and resilience in Darwin parks following Tropical Cyclone Marcus March 17th 2018.
    https://engage.darwin.nt.gov.au