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Native Trees
Slender small delicate shrub/small ornamental tree, with fine leaves and pale yellow flowers. 2-5m.
Large tree with dense foliage, creamy yellow and sweet scented flowers. Useful for shade, windbreaks revegetation and rural property plantings. 10-20m
Spectacular and hardy ornamental wattle in both flower and foliage. Attractive green-grey leaves with showy bright yellow flowers. Useful for filling and screening. 4-7m.
Hardy, shapely and fast growing small to medium wattle with prolific blooms of showy pale yellow cylindrical flowers. Suitable for in filling, screening/shade and revegetation. 4-10m
Delicate slender wattle, endemic to the Top End. Pendulous foliage, pale yellow globular flowers and distinctive fine foliage. Useful for gardens, rockeries or infilling. 3-6m
Very hardy erect bushy wattle with bluey-grey foliage and profusion of bright yellow cylindrical spikes. Cattle fodder. 4-6M
Small pretty wattle with rounded bright yellow globular flowers. Useful for garden beds, rockeries, infilling and revegetation. 1-3m
Medium ornamental shade tree featuring bright red beads, useful for making soap & jewellery. 3-10M
Large Top End feature tree with unique broad bottle-shaped trunk, deciduous, white flowers. 5-15m.
Native Shrubs
Attractive trailing shrub. Watermelon pink to white/cream hibiscus-like flowers last one day, but prolific during wet season. Re-shoots from underground tuber with first rains. Tubers, leaves and shoots edible raw or cooked. Wide medicinal uses. Food plant for the Spotted Bollworm moth and Cotton Leaf roller. 1-1.5m
Slender small delicate shrub/small ornamental tree, with fine leaves and pale yellow flowers. 2-5m.
Hardy and showy ornamental understory shrub for gardens and rockeries. Small elephant ear shaped leaves. Long cylinder deep yellow to golden flowers. 2-3m.
Erect and pretty multi branched wattle, bright yellow flowers. Useful screening and landscape shrub. 1-4m
Native Groundcovers
Attractive trailing shrub. Watermelon pink to white/cream hibiscus-like flowers last one day, but prolific during wet season. Re-shoots from underground tuber with first rains. Tubers, leaves and shoots edible raw or cooked. Wide medicinal uses. Food plant for the Spotted Bollworm moth and Cotton Leaf roller. 1-1.5m
Slender small delicate shrub/small ornamental tree, with fine leaves and pale yellow flowers. 2-5m.
Large tree with dense foliage, creamy yellow and sweet scented flowers. Useful for shade, windbreaks revegetation and rural property plantings. 10-20m
Hardy and showy ornamental understory shrub for gardens and rockeries. Small elephant ear shaped leaves. Long cylinder deep yellow to golden flowers. 2-3m.
Spectacular and hardy ornamental wattle in both flower and foliage. Attractive green-grey leaves with showy bright yellow flowers. Useful for filling and screening. 4-7m.
Erect and pretty multi branched wattle, bright yellow flowers. Useful screening and landscape shrub. 1-4m
Very pretty and neat small shrub with pale yellow pod flowers. Foliage used as herb flavouring for cooking meat. Flowers for long periods. 1-3m.
Spreading feature shrub, very common Acacia species across Darwin with yellow rod shaped flowers and twisted seed pods. Seeds ground to make flour and then damper or flat bread. 3-4m.
Hardy, shapely and fast growing small to medium wattle with prolific blooms of showy pale yellow cylindrical flowers. Suitable for in filling, screening/shade and revegetation. 4-10m
Hardy slender medium shrub, cream/yellow globule pod flowers. Sap can be eaten like a bush toffee. Useful for filling and screening. 3-8m.