Included in Mitchell’s account is a drawing of a bottle tree growing at the top of a basalt peak by his second-in-command, Edmund Kennedy. Bottle Trees, Brachychiton rupestris, occur in central …

Brachychiton rupestris Common name: Queensland Bottle Tree Origin: Endemic to a limited region of Australia in Central Queensland through to northern New South Wales. Typical height:

Plants of Central Queensland: Identification and Uses of Native and Introduced Species. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Australia. [No evidence of domestication] "Aborigines ate the roots of …

Endemic to Queensland, occurs in CEQ south of Mackay to near the New South Wales border, and extending inland to Mitchell and Warrego Pastoral Districts. Altitudinal range from near sea level to …

family Sterculiaceae, (the Cacao family, which is now within Malvaceae), is native to Queensland, and was given this name by Karl Moritz Schumann in 1893. The name comes from the Greek: brachys, …

Location of Tree: Strehlow Centre, Larapinta and Memorial Drive, Alice Springs NT

from the wild in Australia went to China for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. I hope Auckland Council will try again to establish a Queensland bottle-tree in the Auckland Domain, perhaps this time in a …