Merri-bek Tree Finder tool
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Hoop Pine
Large cone shaped tree with scale-like bark and fine pointy leaves that form in whorles. Slow growing evergreen that prefers full sun with light shade and wind tolerant.
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Norfolk Island Pine
Large cone shaped tree with rough trunk and needle-like, dark green foliage. Drought and wind tolerant and adaptive to sandy soils.
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Yunnan Poplar
Large oval tree from 15m with large diamond shaped glossy leaves that change from bright green to gold in autumn.
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Weeping Lilly Pilly
Medium oval tree 8-15m. This tree showcases weeping branches of various shades of green foliage and bird attracting fruit
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Illawarra Flame Tree
Erect oval to conical medium sized tree to 8-12m. The tree can be deciduous from late winter to summer. The leaves are large with 3-7 lobes and the flowers are bright scarlet in terminal panicles from late spring to early summer.
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Willow Myrtle
Broad spreading, multistemmed, semi pendulous small tree to 8m. Attractive small, white flowers cluster along stems from spring to summer.
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Yellow Gum
Medium upright to oval tree to 12m with an open canopy and creamy yellow flowers from winter to spring. The bark is more or less smooth with some rough basal peeling bark, white to grey in colour.
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Willow Leaved Peppermint
Medium to tall oval shaped tree from 12-16m. Rough, reddish brown bark with grey-green foliage. Moderate to high drough tolerance.
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Red Flowering Gum
Dense rounded tree to 8-10m. Masses of pink, red or orange flowers are borne on the outside of the canopy over summer.
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Silky Oak
Open-crown tree from 10-30m. Dark grey bark with dark green lobed foliage and striking golden-orange flowers.
