Native Of: Coastal Eastern Queensland and New South Wales

Native Habitat: Pandanus are native to coastal dunes and headlands of eastern Australia

Form: Pandanus are a small tree with a widely branching canopy supported by prop roots.

Evergreen / Deciduous: Evergreen

Features: Pandanus produce large orange fruit up to 40cm across.

Drought Resistance: *****

Frost Tolerance: ***

Salinity Tolerance: *****

Comments: Pandanus are an easily recognisable tree suited for coastal and beach plantings. Makes a very good feature plant as all are individual with good structural lines.

The recently described foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) is from Cape York, Queensland. This beautiful native palm is named after Wodyeti, the last male Aboriginal with traditional knowledge of the Bathurst Bay-Melville Range area who has now passed away at 78 years of age. Recognised internationally for its lovely, feathery fronds this palm makes a striking statement at 6-15m tall. It has a slightly bottle-shaped 20-25cm thick trunk. This self-cleaning palm, prominently displays its ring markings produced by the long fallen fronds, and produces black ribbed seeds encased in large orange-red fruit.

Best growing conditions:  full sun- good drainage, will grow well in a variety of soils frost sensitive

- once established it will tolerate periods of drought

- do not overwater

- fertilise during the warmer months.

Landscape uses:

Good as a feature, specimen palm or avenue of palms. Planted in a grove this palm is stunning. Can be mistaken for Black Palm (Normanbya normanbyi). Grow this plant for conservation and preservation reasons.

Distribution Habitat: very widely distributed throughout lowland forest and swamps of eastern Australia.

Description: Large, attractive fan palm.

General:Very popular landscaping plant.

Culture: Very hardy palm, grown from the tropics thru to temperate regions. Frost tolerant. Likes lots of water, and lots of sun. Wind, and salt tolerant.

Native Of: Madagascar and Mauritius

Native Habitat: Sandy to rocky exposed slopes

Form: Upright, generally multi trunking with wide spreading head.

Evergreen / Deciduous: Evergreen

Features: Grey brown trunk and round seed pods create a statement. Branching often uniform from main trunk

Drought Resistance: ****

Frost Tolerance:*

Salinity Tolerance:****

Comments: An architectural specimen.