Brachychiton australis (Schott. & Endl.) A.Terracc.
A bottle-shaped tree when mature, deciduous when flowering, with 5-lobed leaves, to 25cm, and short racemes of cup-shaped white flowers, to 2.5cm long. [REF].
Horticultural & Botanical History
‘S. trichosiphon, Benth. A tree, quite glabrous, leafless when in flower. Leaves 4 to 8 in. long and broad, more or less deeply cut into 5 or rarely 7 palmate lobes, sometimes broad and shortly acuminate, sometimes lanceolate with long points, and glabrous on both sides. Racemes short, mostly simple. Calyx narrow, tubular-campanulate, about 3/4 in. long, the lobes lanceolate, spreading, much shorter than the tube. Staminal column swollen and hairy in the middle. Stigma peltate. Follicles shortly stipitate, glabrous, oblong-triangular, 2 to 3 in. long. — Trichosiphon australe, Schott, Melet. 34; Brachychiton platanoides, R. Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 234.
N. Australia. Abel Tasman river, F. Mueller; Nicol Bay, F. Gregory.
Queensland. Northumberland Island (R. Brown), Burdekin and Suttor and Dawson rivers, F. Mueller; Wide Bay, Bidwill. The few flowers I have seen were much damaged by insects. I have not seen R. Brown’s specimens.’ [FA vol.1, p.229/1863].
History at Camden Park
Listed in the 1850 and 1957 catalogues [T.948/1850]. No longer in the gardens. Probably grown from seed collected by Leichhardt.
Notes
Published Mar 07, 2010 - 05:25 PM | Last updated Jul 31, 2010 - 04:32 PM
| Family | Sterculiaceae |
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| Category | |
| Region of origin | Northern Australia |
| Synonyms |
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| Common Name | Broad-leaved bottle tree |
| Name in the Camden Park Record |
Sterculia sp. nova (Leichardt) |
| Confidence level | medium |