Merri-bek Tree Finder tool
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Nothern Cypress Pine
Evergreen conifer with a narrow upright form and fine foliage, well suited to dry and exposed sites.
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White Cypress Pine
Evergreen conifer with blue-green foliage and a graceful upright habit, tolerant of drought and poor soils.
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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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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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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 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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Red Ironbark
Large evergreen tree to 15–25 m with a broad canopy, deeply furrowed dark bark and masses of cream flowers in autumn and winter.
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Wallangarra Gum
Medium to tall open tree to 12-18m tall. Trunk is a powdery white and the foliage is semi-pendulous and green in colour.
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Red Box
Round-headed to upright eucalypt to a height of 10-12m. Adult leaves are a slate grey colour and bark is rough 'box'.
