BUSH TREES AND FRUITS OF BROOME

THE REMNANT RAIN FOREST

'INTRODUCED PLANT PESTS'

BUSH TREE SHOWCASE

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The Kimberley bush should not be burnt without knowledge - too often it is overburnt, burnt at the wrong time or burnt deliberately.  This can destroy wildlife and trees especially if it occurs frequently.

"NORTHERN AUSTRALIA FIRE INFORMATION"

Feature article: The Jigal tree

New plants discovered in the Kimberley

Broome wild flowers

  1. Abrus precatorioius - giddi giddi
  2. Acacia adoxa - small low wattle - long 4cm seed pod and flowering late Sept.
  3. Acacia colei (Soap wattle)
  4. Acacia holosericea (Soap Tree)
  5. Acacia dunnii* (not native to this area) (Elephant Ear Wattle)
  6. Acacia eriopoda (Pindan Wattle) - very silvery in late Sept
  7. Acacia monticola - very prickly rough flaking bark - curled pods in September
  8. Acacia platycarpa - flowers in March - very white - 3 veins to each leaf
  9. Acacia translucens* (not native to this area)  (Poverty Bush)
  10. Acacia tumida (Wongai/Spear Wattle)
  11. Atalaya hemiglauca - (guwarru)
  12. Bauhinia cunninghamii (Jigal Tree)
  13. Brachychiton diversifolius (Northern Kurrajong) - green heart leaf - very light green tree in November
  14. Canavalia rosea - Beach bean
  15. Carissa lanceolata (Conkerberry or Kungkura)
  16. Capparis lasiantha (Native passionfruit) - in September
  17. Cassytha filiformis (Yugulu) Koodikoodi
  18. Cleome viscosa - Mustard bush - yellow star flower - put behind your ear to keep flies away
  19. Clerodendrum tomentosum (velvet leaves)
  20. Gossypium rotundifolium (white hibiscus)
  21. Crotalaria cunninghamii -  Rattlepod bird flower tree - green new growth in August -March on Roebuck Plains
  22. Crotalaria medicinia - 3 leaves
  23. Cyperus bulbosus (bush onion) - sand dunes, closed grassland
  24. Disticholstemon hispidulus (Moondoorj)
  25. Dolichandrone heterophylla (Lemon Wood)
  26. Ehretia saligna (Native Willow or Peachwood)
  27. Erythrophleum chlorostachys (Iron wood)
  28. Eucalyptus bigalerita - Northern salmon gum
  29. Eucalyptus camaldulensis - River red gum - drops bark in November - seeds in December
  30. Eucalyptus flavescens - Cable Beach ghost gum - bark - leaves.
  31. Eucalyptus dampieri 
  32. Eucalyptus polycarpa - great example at the corner of Barker and Weld St. near the Dentist's
  33. Eucalyptus tectifica - Darwin Box
  34. Eucalyptus terminalis (inland Bloodwood - most dominant eucalyptus in the Kimberley)
  35. Eucalyptus zygophylla
  36. Ficus opposita (Sandpaper fig) - in September
  37. Gardenia pyriformis - (Native gardenia)
  38. Gossypium australe (Native cotton)
  39. Grevillea pyramidalis (Willing or Caustic Tree)
  40. Grewia breviflora - coffee fruit - gum tree avenue
  41. Grewia polygamma (dog's balls) - nice green bush in March
  42. Grewia retusiforlia (shrub)
  43. Gyrocarpus  Americanus (Helicopter tree)
  44. Hakea macrocarpa (Boomerang Tree) - leave strap like, flowers May- July, large clump of flowers
  45. Hakea aborescens (Kylie tree: flowers in February, thin leaves, large pod, small clump of flowers)
  46. Hibiscus panduriformis - yellow hibiscus
  47. Ipomoea pes-caprae (beach morning glory - pink flower)
  48. Jacquermontia paniculata (white morning glory)
  49. Jasminum didymum - creeper - black little fruit in June
  50. Lysiana spathulata (Nilli Nilli) 
  51. Macroptilium atroppurpureum (purple bean) - creeper - South America - aggressive weed
  52. Melaleuca acaciodes - coastal paperbark
  53. Melaleuca argentea - silver cadjeput - weeping - air is full of the honey smell in September
  54. Marsdenia viridiflora (Magabala or Bush Banana)
  55. Maytenus cunninghamii (corky shrub)
  56. Myoporum tenuifolium - gawar - purple small fruit in August in coastal sand dunes - toxic to cattle..
  57. Pavetta browni
  58. Psoralea martinii -- purple flower in September - greyish white wool - named in 1864 at Roebuck Bay
  59. Persoonia falcata (Wild Pear) - Wankid
  60. Ptilotus exaltatus (Pink Mulla, Mulla) - Native spinach
  61. Premna acuminata (Firestick tree)
  62. Senna notabilis -  The cockroach bush - August
  63. Sida rohlenae - low shrub - yellow flowers - Jan - 10 km east of Broome
  64. Spinifex longifolius - beach spinifex - really binds the sand dunes - stops erosion
  65. Templetonia hookeri* (Rooroo)
  66. Terminalia cunninghamii - Pindan Walnut
  67. Tinospora smilacina (Snake vine)
  68. Tricholesma zehlanicum - 1 metre high - sky blue flowers - camel bush
  69. Tylophora cinerascens - oyster-catcher bill
  70. Velleia panuriformis - one erect stem - flower bright orange colour - one metre high.
  71. Ventilago vimalis (Medicine Bark)
  72. Wrightia saligna (Yellow Wax Flower)

SPEAR GRASS

Coconut wells-Beagle Bay road

  1. Codonocarpus cotinifolius (desert poplar) 5m, especially in burnt areas, camels love it.

  2. Velleia panduriformis (pindan poison) 1.5m,  long stems from a central area, yellow flowers, especially after fire.

  3. Sida rohlenae - low shrub - yellow flowers - Jan - 10 km east of Broome

  4. Trichodesma zeylanicum (camel bush) – very common especially after a fire.  Flowers are pale blue.  Brown honeyeaters eat the nectar in September.  Hairs can irritate.