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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Yellow Box
Medium to tall open tree to 20-25m. The bark is rough and tightly held to the trunk and the foliage is semi-penduluous.
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Brittle Gum
Medium to tall open tree to 12-18m tall. Trunk is a powdery white and the foliage is semi-pendulous and blue-green in colour.
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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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Kurrajong
A medium-sized upright to oval canopied tree with a large trunk to 10-12m tall. The leaves are mostly small and bright green, flowers are inconspicuous.
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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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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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Maidenhair Tree
Medium oval tree from 12m. Unique, double lobed, fan shaped leaves of rich green, and turn yellow in autumn
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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.
