Very attractive shade tree with layered branches and impressive form. Dark green glossy leaves and lovely yellow-green fruit encasing bright red seeds. Useful for screening, feature plantings and shade. Bird attractant and cyclone resistant. Ground kernel used as nutmeg. 8-12M
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Large hardy & impressive tree with unique layered horizontal branching and large glossy leaves. Yellow-white heavily scented flowers on stunning orange globular heads. Excellent shade and feature tree. Edible fruit. Semi-deciduous. 10-18M
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Small perennial shrub with gorgeous mauve flowers. Young fruit edible. Useful for landscape plantings, filling specimen, or as a feature shrub. Bast planted in multiples for maximum impact in urban or rural garden beds. Requires ample moisture. 1-2M
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Impressive small clumping pandanus with stunning architectural form. Seeds are extracted from fruit, roasted and eaten. Attractive yellow globular fruits. Hardy feature plant for feature landscape gardens, rockeries, filling and screening. 3-5M
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Iconic multi-branched Darwin pandanus palm. Distinctive spiralling leaves and large pleasantly scented fragrant woody fruits. Roasted kernel, new fronds and fruits are eaten. Useful for filling, screening and feature planting. 3-7M
Read MorePavetta brownii→
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Pretty spreading small understory shrub with profuse bursts of highly decorative white flowers. Highly attractive to birds. Tolerates part shade. Fruit edible when ripens to black. 1.5-5M
Read MorePeltophorum pterocarpum→
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Common Darwin park, garden & streetscape planting. Colourful and extremely hardy medium feature tree with dark green attractive leaves and spectacular blooms of cascading yellow flowers. Suitable as a medium sized feature shade tree for urban and rural gardens. 10-12M
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Hardy small woodland shrub/tree. Fruit favoured as native bush tucker, tasting like milk bottle lollies and eaten/sucked raw or dried and stored. Unique bright pink red new growth and impressive yellow flowers. 3-5M
Read MorePetalostigma pubescens→
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Small hardy evergreen understory tree with dense foliage and bright orange fruits. Useful for infilling, revegetation, screening and windbreaks on rural properties. 3-6M
Read MorePetraeomyrtus punicea→
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Slender sprawling evergreen shrub endemic to Arnhem Land and Kakadu, with thin pine like leaves and gorgeous red flowers throughout the year. A delicate ornamental suited to urban & rural gardens and rockeries. Rarely seen in cultivation. 2-3M
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Spectacular, compact and rare endemic tree known only from Eastern Arnhem Land in the NT. Glossy, evergreen foliage and magical blooms of white flowers from trunk and branches with glorious pineapple scent. Highly sought after shade tolerant understory planting. 4-8M
Read MorePhaleria octandra→
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Small attractive shrub with glossy foliage, showy white fragrant flowers in dense clusters and red berries. Found in rainforest & coastal habitats from Tiwi Islands to Gove. Excellent understory planting for moist, shaded locations. 3-5M
Read MorePittosporum moluccanum→
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Small decorative & ornamental understory tree. Useful for screening and filling in parks, gardens and residential properties. Dense shiny foliage and masses of white perfumed flowers with black seeds in orange fruit. An important host plant for the endangered Atlas Moth. Tolerates part shade. 3-6m
Read MorePlanchonella arnhemica→
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Semi-deciduous understory tree found in dry open forest, woodland and occasionally closer to freshwater. Smooth fleshy green or black globular edible berry eaten ripe or roasted. Small creamy white flowers. Corky greyish brown bark. An excellent bush tucker planting for suburban and rural properties, provided ample moisture. 8-10M
Read MorePlanchonia careya→
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Small deciduous woodland tree with beautiful large pink and white flower blooms, often found scattered below. Outer fleshy fruit edible and important medicinal plant with antibacterial qualities. Excellent revegetation and rural garden planting. 5-10M
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NT native happy plant. Lush, evergreen ornamental shrub with thin glossy strap like leaves. Small cream sweetly scented flowers & globular orange/red berries. Tolerates shade & hardy once established. Suitable for understory planting or indoor potting. 1-4M
Read MorePodocarpus grayae→
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Handsome large & compact native weeping pine. Near threatened species from monsoon vine forests of the western Arnhem Land escarpment, endemic to Northern Australia. Very attractive feature screening tree with slender strappy dense evergreen foliage and striking blue seeds on red edible fruits. 10-12M
Read MorePolyalthia australis→
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Stunning medium sized feature and accent tree, with dense dark green weeping leaves and attractive rounded form. Yellow-green flowers, orange fruit. Host plant for the pale green triangle Butterfly, Graphium eurypylus. Requires moist habitat and tolerates part shade. 3-10M
Read MorePolyalthia longifolia→
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Related to Indian Mast Tree but with more rounded form and wider traditional rounded tree canopy. Slender wavy dark green glossy foliage, excellent dense shade. Stunning medium sized feature and accent tree. 5-15M
Read MorePremna acuminata→
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Large spreading shrub to small tree with fine hairy leaves and huge clusters of cream white flowers presenting in a large horizontal platter, culminating in black berries. An extremely effective bird attractant. Tolerates part shade. Fast growing. Wood favoured for fire sticks. 2-3M
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