Bombax (Bombax ceiba)
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Weeping paperbark (Melaleuca leucadendra)
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Leichardt Pine (Nauclea orientalis)
Showy pink flowers, edible fruit detail >>
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(Field Trips)
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(Terminalia sericocarpa)
Tall layered spreading crowned tree with light green leaves, semi-deciduous. Racemes small white flowers developing into small fleshy edible drupes to 2cm with small to 1cm seed. From springs north of Derby and Kununurra. detail >>
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Freshwater Mangrove (Barringtonia acutangular)
Pendulous racemes red flowers, dark green glossy foliage, unusual 4 cornered fruit. detail >>
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(Terminalia platyphylla)
Large riverine tree, large elongated drupes, with thin edible flesh covering fruit. Leaves are large, oval and slightly hairy. Found along most Kimberley rivers and streams. detail >>
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Boab Court branch (plant nursery)
After collecting seeds on field trips around the Kimberley the seeds are stored and dried. they are planted out into a sandy mix in used milk cartons which are stacked into used polyboxes on benches. Daily watering is done by volunteers and work-for-dole participants. The plants are bought by... detail >>
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KEH Award (Old Broome Estate)
Judges Award to KEH for excellence in design for Old Broome Estate. The object of the design was developed around principles of water harvesting. Principles of waterwise landscaping were compromised due to Broome Council insistance on couch grass instead of low groundcovers as included in original... detail >>
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Field Trip to Tablelands (homo caninus)
Tom with Tig and Ruby on the way to
Tablelands, East Kimberley and Teronus
Gorge. detail >>
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Banyan Fig (Ficus virens)
Large buttressed trunk with aerial roots. Leaves large coriaceous, ovate to elliptic, glabrous with long petioles. Fruits are creamy-green and hairy in ssp dasycarpa and smooth and tinged red in ssp virens. In northern Dampier Peninsular vine thickets and wetlands of the Kimberley. detail >>
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River Redgum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)
Irregular shaped massive tree with whitish bark changing with irregular grey, brown to red peeling patches on trunk. Narrow long dull grey-green leaves to 30 cm long and drooping. Flowers creamy-white in clusters of 7 to 11. Fruit 5mm to 8mm with ascending disc. Widespread along rivers and creeks... detail >>
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Cheesewood (Alstonia actinophylla)
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(Melaleuca argentea)
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Coolabah Tree (Eucalyptus microtheca)
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Yellow Flame Tree (Peltophorum pterocarpum)
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