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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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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White Cypress Pine
Evergreen conifer with blue-green foliage and a graceful upright habit, tolerant of drought and poor soils.
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Snow in Summer
Small to medium round tree 6-10m. Soft, papery bark that peels in thick sheets. The leaves are grey-green, and the canopy is densely covered with honey-scented white-cream flowers
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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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Silky Oak
Open-crown tree from 10-30m. Dark grey bark with dark green lobed foliage and striking golden-orange flowers.
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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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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.
