Trees gallery - Logan Botanic Garden - page 2

Banksia ericifolia banksia - after English botanist and naturalist Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820), who first collected specimens of the genus in 1770 during Captain Cook's voyage; ericifolia - from Latin erica meaning heather and folium meaning leaf, referring to the heather-like leaves; macrantha: - from Greek makros meaning large and anthosmeaning flower. macrantha

Heath leaved banksia

A.k.a. lantern banksia, a large, fast-growing Australian shrub reaching up to 6 m, known for its massive, bottlebrush-like autumn/winter blooms. It naturally occurs only in the northern coastal areas of New South Wales and stands out for having much larger flowers and foliage than the typical species. It produces spectacular, elongated spikes in brilliant shades of golden-orange to deep red. Dense, dark green, needle-like leaves are arranged alternately on the branches. The bark is smooth, greyish-brown, becoming corky with age.

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Banksia marginata banksia - after English botanist and naturalist Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820), who first collected specimens of the genus in 1770 during Captain Cook's voyage; marginata - from Latin marginatus, meaning with a distinct margin, referring to the distinct appearance of the leaves, which have prominently recurved or rolled-under edges.

Silver banksia

It ranges from a 20 cm prostrate shrub on exposed coastal heaths to a 12 - 30m tall tree. Its stiff leaves have silvery-white undersides. It produces dense, cylindrical spikes of pale yellow flowers up to 13 cm long that bloom from late summer to winter. These die back to leave woody cones consisting of seed-bearing follicles, which often open following extreme heat or bushfires. The bark is light grey and smooth when young, developing a finely tessellated texture with age.

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Blepharocalyx cruckshanksiiblepharocalyx - from Greek blepharis meaning eyelash or fringe and calyx the outer whorl or sepals of a flower, referring to the fringed, ciliate margins of the calyx lobes; cruckshanksii - after Scottish plant hunter and botanist Alexander Cruckshanks (1792 - 1860), who collected specimens of the plant during his travels in Chile and Peru in the 1820s and 1830s

Temu

A.k.a. Heaven Scent, a highly fragrant, slow-growing evergreen shrub or small tree up to 20 m (3-5 m in cultivation), native to Chile. It produces dense masses of scented white flowers with conspicuous stamens bloom during the summer months. It hasflaking bark and edible dark berries that transition from red to dark purple/black as they ripen.

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Caldcluvia caldcluvia - after Alexander Caldcleugh, a Scottish botanist and plant collector who traveled extensively through South America between 1819 and 1825. paniculata - Latin meaning with panicles, referring to the plant's inflorescence which bloom in loose, branching, pyramidal clusters. paniculata

Tiaca

An evergreen tree or shrub native to the temperate rainforests of Chile and Argentina, reaching 20m in the wild (6 m in cultivation). It has clusters of small white hermaphroditic flowers, with a greyish-brown bark, followed by leathery, many-seeded hairy capsules that are crowned by persistent styles

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Callistemon callistemon - from Greek kalli meaning beautiful and stemon, stamens, referring to the plant's fluffy, cylindrical flowers; viridiflorus from Latin viridis meaning green and flora meaning flower, describing the lime-green colouring of its blooms viridiflorus

Green bottlebrush

A.k.a. lime bottlebrush, a hardy, broadleaf evergreen compact shrub or small tree native to Tasmania. The leaves are sword shaped, dark green, and arranged alternately along wand-like stems. Flowers bloom primarily in summer, as cylindrical, brush-like spikes with fluffy, greenish-yellow to cream-tinted stamens and are highly attractive to pollinators like bees, hummingbirds, and other beneficial insects.

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Callistris callistris - Callistris: Derived from the Ancient Greek words kallos meaning beautiful and either treis, three or trichos, hair, referring to the arrangement of the tree's tiny, scale-like leaves in whorls of three; endlicheri after Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher (1804 - 1849), an eminent Austrian botanist, numismatist, and former director of the Botanic Gardens of Vienna. Endlicheri

Black Cypress Pine

An evergreen coniferous tree native to eastern Australia, growing 5 to 15 m, with narrow, pyramidal crown, dark green keeled leaves, and rounded cones with smooth scales. Dainty, dark green, scale-like leaves are arranged in whorls of three. The bark is tough, dark, and deeply furrowed. The species is monoecious, producing small, smooth, spherical female seed cones (15 - 20 mm in diameter) that can persist on the branches for years.

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Camellia camellia - after Georg Joseph Kamel (Latinized to Camellus), a Moravian Jesuit missionary and botanist who documented plants in the Philippines during the 17th century; reticulata - from Latin reticulatus, meaning net-like, referring to the dull green, elliptical leaves, which feature prominent, deeply indented veins that create a highly visible netting pattern across the leaf's surface reticulata

Yunnan camellia

A large, spring-blooming evergreen shrub or small tree native to Yunnan, China. It producing some of the largest, most spectacular flowers in the genus, ranging from soft pink to deep red,up to 15 cm across. Blooms feature 5 to 8 or more crinkled, ruffled petals surrounding vibrant yellow stamens.

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Camellia williamsiiCamellia - after Georg Joseph Kamel (Latinized to Camellus), a Moravian Jesuit missionary and botanist who documented plants in the Philippines during the 17th century; williamsii - after the breeder, John Charles (J.C.) Williams, who successfully raised the first of these historic European hybrids at his Cornish estate around 1923; Inspiration - one of many named Williams' cultivars Inspiration

Camellia Inspiration

Camellia × williamsii 'Inspiration' is a free-flowering evergreen shrub with vivid, deep rosy-pink semi-double blooms and vigorous growth. Bred as a hybrid between c. reticulata and c. saluenensis. It has a robust, upright shape with dense, waxy, deep-green foliage.

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