Trees gallery - Logan Botanic Garden - page 5

Melaleuca melaleuca - from Greek mélas meaning black, and leukos meaning white, referring to fire-blackened white bark; Squarrosa: - from Latin squarrosus, meaning rough with stiff bracts, leaves or scales, referring to the manner in which the shrub's overlapping, scale-like leaves bend and curve outwards from top to bottom squarrosa

Scented paperbark

A.k.a. Australian swamp tea tree, an upright evergreen shrub or small tree native to SE Australia, growing 2 to 5 m. It has spongy, layered white papery bark, sweet fragrance, and dense, creamy-yellow bottlebrush flowers, which appear from late spring to early summer. These are followed by small, woody, cup-shaped capsules that cluster along the stems.

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Melaleuca virens melaleuca - from Greek mélas meaning black, and leukos meaning white, referring to fire-blackened white bark; - -

Lime bottlebrush

A.k.a. mountain bottlebrush, and formerly callistemon viridiflorus, a small-to-medium upright evergreen shrub endemic to Tasmania, growing 2 to 3 m. It has dense dark green foliage and distinctive lime-yellow, dense, cylindrical bottlebrush flowers, followed by woody, seed-bearing capsules.

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Metrosideros metrosideros - from Greek Metra meaning heartwood and sideron meaning iron, referring to the exceptionally hard, dense, and strong timber; stipularis - from Latin stipula, meaning straw or stalk, referring to prominent stipules — the small, leaf-like appendages at the base of the leaf stalk. stipularis

Tepu

A.k.a. trepu, or tepual, and formerly known as Tepualia stipularis, a slow-growing evergreen tree or shrub native to the extremely wet, swampy regions of S Chile and Argentina, growing up to 5 m. It features elliptical, dark-green leaves and bears small, white, five petalled flowers which bloom singly or in clusters.

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Metrosideros metrosideros - from Greek Metra meaning heartwood and sideron meaning iron, referring to the exceptionally hard, dense, and strong timber; umbella - Latin for umbrella, referring to the umbrella-shaped cluster of flowers in which individual stalks (pedicels) originate from a single, central point. umbellata

Southern rata

A slow-growing, loosely-branching evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand, reach heights up to 15 m. It has dense, glossy foliage and vivid, scarlet, brush-like flowers that bloom in the summer. The bark is thin, peeling off in papery flakes.

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Mitraria Mitraria - from Greek mitra meaning mitre or headband, referring to the bishop's hat shape of the seed capsule; coccinea - from Latin coccineus meaning scarlet, describing the vibrant colour of the tubular flowers. coccinea

Chilean mitre flower

An exotic evergreen scrambling shrub native to the moist, temperate rainforests of Chile and Argentina. It has vibrant, tube-shaped large flowers up to 5 cm long and boast a rich scarlet-orange to red color with a velvety texture. They are pendulous and tubular with protruding yellow stamens. It has small, glossy, deep green, oval-shaped leaves that have serrated margins.

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Morus nigra Morus Latin for mulberry; nigra - Latin for black, referencing the dark purple or black colour of the mulberry fruit.

Black mulberry

A deciduous tree growing to 12 m, originating in Mesopotamia and Persia, but cultivated across Europe and Asia. The richly flavoured fruit is a compound cluster of several small drupes that are dark purple, almost black when ripe, 2.5 cm in diameter.

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Myrceugenia Myrceugenia - from Greek myrtos meaning myrtle and eugenes meaning well-born or noble; colchaguensis refers to its native region, the Colchagua Province in central Chile, (ensis means originating from). colchaguensis

Colchaguilla

A rare species of small evergreen tree or large shrub growing to 4 m, endemic to the coastal mountain ranges of central Chile. Flowers grow singly in the leaf axils, notable for having calyx-lobes covered with dense yellow hairs. These are followed by a fleshy berry.

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Nothofagus dombeyi Nothofagus - from Greek nothos, meaning false and fagus, Latin name for the beech tree, referring to how the southern beeches closely resemble northern beeches (Fagus) but are genetically distinct; dombeyi - after French botanist and explorer Joseph Dombey (1742 - 1794), who collected many of the foundational botanical specimens of this tree during his expedition to Chile and Peru in the late 18th century.

Dombey's beech

A.k.a. coigue, a tall, fast-growing evergreen tree native to the temperate forests of S Chile and Argentina. It has layered branches, dense glossy foliage, and robust timber, growing up to 40 - 45 m in the wild, with a broadly conical to flat-topped habit. Its branches often layer, cedar-like, horizontally. Flowers are hermaphroditic containing both male and female floral organs: pistils and stamens , tiny and insignificant, while the fruit is a small, triangular nutlet containing seeds.

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Nothofagus glauca Nothofagus - from Greek nothos, meaning false and fagus, Latin name for the beech tree, referring to how the southern beeches closely resemble northern beeches (Fagus) but are genetically distinct; glauca - from Latin glaucus, meaning bluish-green, referring to the pale, waxy, and often slightly bluish-green leaves

Hualo

A.k.a. roble Maulino, is a deciduous tree endemic to the Maulino forests of central Chile. It has grey-reddish bark and fragrant spring buds, it grows up to 30 m tall and is on the IUCN red list International Union for Conservation of Nature due to habitat fragmentation. Flower buds have a sweet, cinnamon fragrance in the spring. Male flowers are solitary, while female flowers occur in groups of three.

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