Small to medium densely foliated spreading wattle. Reddish young shoots, short yellow cylindrical flowers. Excellent hardy and fast growing low bushy shrub. 1-3M
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Small, neat & compact shrub with splendid spreading form. Prolific bursts of showy yellow flowers throughout the year. Hardy, low specimen for garden beds, borders, rockeries & urban plantings. 1-1.5M
Read MoreAcrostichum speciosum→
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Lovely low, clumping & compact fern with attractive glossy dark green foliage. Perfect tropical ground cover or small feature planting for low borders, edging and low light garden beds. 1-1.5M
Read MoreAdenanthera pavonina→
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Medium sized fast growing & hardy ornamental shade tree. Featuring bright red bead seeds, useful for making soap & jewellery. Dense shade for rural properties & revegetation projects. 3-10M
Read MoreAdansonia gregorii→
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Australia's only Boab species. Synonymous with the Kimberley, but also native to the NT. Large feature tree with unique broad bottle-shaped trunk, deciduous, white flowers. Seeds and pith edible. Fast growing statement feature tree. 5-15M
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Medium decorative feature shrub or small tree with layered growth. Cream, strongly scented flowers borne in small clusters along the branches. Attracts numerous birds and butterflies. Tasty edible shiny bright red fruit. Cyclone resistant. Excellent filler, feature & screening tree. 4-10M
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NT Native rain tree. Very large feature tree with huge spreading symmetrical canopy. Hardy, fast growing and providing impressive shade. Highly scented white flowers. After several years establishing performs well with little water. Semi-deciduous. Excellent planting for rural properties and as cattle fodder. 10-15M
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Very large feature tree with huge spreading symmetrical canopy. Hardy, fast growing and providing impressive shade. Highly scented reddish-pink to cream-golden coloured flowers. After several years establishing performs well with little water. Excellent planting for rural properties and as cattle fodder. 18-30M
Read MoreAllosyncarpia ternata→
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One of the Top End's most impressive large cyclone & termite resistant shade trees. Majestic, dense & evergreen symmetrical canopy. Can live for over a hundred years. Important source of honey. Non invasive roots. An excellent large feature shade tree for rural properties or street & parkscape plantings. 15-20M
Read MoreAlloteropsis semialata→
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Widespread & hardy top end perennial grass, providing shelter and early season food source for wide variety of native finches including the Gouldian. Tufted & deep rooted. Best planted in multiples. 1-2M
Read MoreAlphitonia excelsa→
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Common NT medium sized, spreading deciduous rainforest tree. Providing splendid shade in bloom. Bird and butterfly attractant, fragrant small white flowers. Termite resistant. Excellent rural and revegetation planting. 5-15M
Read MoreAlstonia actinophylla→
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One of the most popular and common large cyclone resistant shade trees in the Top End. Very handsome and stately feature specimen. Bird attractant, sweetly scented cream flowers and distinctive corky bark. 10-20M
Read MoreAsteromyrtus magnifica→
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Handsome medium sized showy shrub to small tree, endemic to Arnhem Land and Kakadu, with beautifully scented foliage. Magnificent large bright yellow globular flowers with unique seed pods, an important nectar source for native bees.1-3M
Read MoreAsteromyrtus symphyocarpa→
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Small stately tree with fine, delicate weeping foliage. Bright showy yellow/orange globular flowers in numerous seed pods along branches. Crushed leaves smell like natural menthol, applied as a chest decongestant, inhaled for coughs, colds and headaches or rubbed in to treat aches and sprains. 2-5M
Read MoreAtalaya hemiglauca→
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Distinctive medium sized drought tolerant tree with clusters of beautiful soft, white flowers and papery textured winged fruits. Occurs in a variety of soil types in semi-arid regions and savanna woodlands. 6-10M
Read MoreAtalaya variifolia →
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Small slender tree with attractive pendulous foliage, long drooping cream-white flowers and unique papery winged fruits. A desirable small waterwise garden shrub or tree. Host plant for the Wattle or Miskin’s Blue Butterfly. 3-6M
Read MoreBanksia dentata→
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Distinctive & iconic feature shrub/small tree. The NT's only native Banksia. Beautiful large bright yellow decorative flowers which can be licked or sucked for nectar. Green-white holly shaped leaves, bird attractant. Ornate urban & rural feature planting. 3-7M
Read MoreBarringtonia acutangula →
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Impressive small tree with handsome low spreading canopy. Becomes covered with bright red pendulous droops of stunning flowers, followed by profusion of four-angled winged fruit. Urban feature or rural planting. Mostly 3-5M shrub but can grow into larger tree.
Read MoreBauhinia cunninghamii→
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Hardy, drought tolerant tree with pendulous branches, attractive small butterfly shaped foliage and velvety pink tubular flowers. Rich in nectar for birds, butterflies and bees and protein source for cattle. 5-10M
Read MoreBombax ceiba→
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Tall layered deciduous tree with stunning red flowers when leafless, unique woody thorns on trunk & buttress roots. Kapok seed pod filled with white fluffy stuffing. Flowers and leaves edible. Occurs in monsoon vine forests and river banks. Related to the Boab. 10-20M
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