Self Guided Walk 1 31 700M - 20 Minutes Duration 30 Wheel Chair Accessible

Self Guided Walk 1 31 700m - 20 minutes duration 30 Wheel Chair accessible

29 Welcome to Mackay 28 Macrozamia miquelii female cone Zingiber spectabile – Palm Walk (16) Xerochrysum bracteatum – Golden Everlasting Daisies (23) Regional Botanic Various cycads and native Continue along the macrozamias grow in between. Gardens where you will Lagoons pathway to the The fenced area on your right discover some of the Gymnosperm Deck (15) protects Macrozamia miquelii which is endemic to Australia. The deck is a great opportunity plants that are part of to try your hand at some bird our living collection. 27 spotting on the lagoons with some assistance from the bird identification sign. How many can you find from the sign?

Cordyline manners-suttoniae - Giant Palm Lily 23 Commersonia bartramia 24 – Brown Kurrajongs in flower Gardens Administration The large trees above are (21) Commersonia bartramia – On your right are the giant 25 Brown Kurrajongs. They are Cordyline manners-suttoniae 22 a fast-growing tree and their (Giant Palm Lily) which are found Bowenia spectablis - Cycad (15) branches are layered with white only in Queensland and have 20 flowers in December. Turn left at attractive white flowers and bright At the end of the timber deck the intersection onto... red fruits. The hedges along here are popular with many butterfly 15 21 keep walking until you reach Palm Walk (16) species, including the Ulysses 19 a zigzag pathway which leads and Green Triangle. Can you spot you up through a range of cycad Here you will find a variety of any butterflies along here? species. On your left is Bowenia native and exotic palms. This spectablis, a pretty rainforest garden has a number of plant You have completed 17 species which are members of cycad species which grows close your walk. We hope you to streams and on sheltered the ginger family and relatives such as Heliconia and Costus have enjoyed exploring slopes. Note the imprints of many 18 cycad fronds in the pathway species. Can you spot any some of the plants of interesting flowers? the Mackay Regional beneath the majestic Araucaria 16 cunninghamii – Hoop Pines. Turn left towards the... Botanic Gardens.

The Eungella Cloud Take the time to find out what Garden (20) species are being trialled here. Continue to walk along the path Next to the Café displays until you reach an intersection. stunning rainforest epiphytes that can be found around Eungella. Sister City Garden (28) Can you see Hoya australis – Common Waxflower, growing up Take the time to read the signage the fence just as it would in the and turn left onto the bottom wild? It has pretty, white flowers pathway with the Lagoons arranged in clusters of up to 40 on your right. Immediately on flowers. your left is the World Cycad Garden. Cycads are fascinating Eucalyptus raveretiana - Black Ironbox (25) Brachychiton compactus – Whitsunday Bottle Tree Archontophoenix alexandrae - Alexandra Palms (23) ancient plants that co-existed Brachychiton acerifolius - Flame Trees (28)

with dinosaurs and covered large Start at Gardens Keep walking until you Finch Hatton Waterway (23) areas of the Earth’s surface Administration (21) some 200 million years ago, reach the shady, lower It is inspired by one of the before flowering plants evolved. part of Finch Hatton You are standing in front of headwaters of the Pioneer River. They are gymnosperms (cone the Brachychiton compactus The plants in this garden are Waterways (23). bearing plants) that grow in sand (Whitsunday Bottle Tree) an iconic like the ones you would find in or rock. On your right, just before the species found in rocky rainforests the rainforests of Finch Hatton bridge is the iconic Nauclea in the Whitsundays. It gets its Gorge and its waterfalls. Look orientalis - Leichardt Tree. From bottle-like shape as it ages up to see the Archontophoenix November to December it has between five and eight years alexandrae - Alexandra Palms - distinctive yellow flowers that and can grow to around 20m in and the Cyathea cooperi - Scaly Hoya australis – Common Waxflower (20) resemble spiky round baubles height. This is certainly a feature Tree Ferns. that soon produce an edible fruit tree for any garden. Plumbago auriculata – Plumbago (26) after flowering. At the Café, take a moment Walk to the Botanic to orientate yourself with the Mediterranean Malta Gardens Cafe (22) Gardens’ layout, stretching Garden (26). Look up at the roof structures along both sides of Kaliguil and The garden was created in on the buildings, which direct Eulamere Lagoons. recognition of Mackay’s Maltese rain water into the Leaping Jets community. Did you know that the Fountain. It’s certainly a sight to The map shown on the wall is Mackay region has the largest Cycas wadei - close up (28) see in wet weather! The periodic divided into five sections, the Maltese population in a regional jet water is pumped from the five precincts on the eastern centre outside of Malta. The Lagoons below and flows back side of the Lagoons. The sixth plants growing in front of the Cycads are dioecious – they into them. is west - Meadowlands, across arches are the Adenium obesum - have separate male and female the Lagoons from here. Precinct Desert Rose - from Africa and the plants. The female plant produces names are those from early Cyathea cooperii - Scaly Tree Ferns (23) Arabian Peninsula, and Plumbago the seeds, the male produces properties in the local area. auriculata – Plumbago, from cones filled with pollen. Two Nauclea orientalis - Leichardt Tree in flower (23) Each precinct is coloured The lawn to your right is South Africa. Take a closer look at cycads that stand out in the differently, which is reflected gardens are Cycas wadei, the big the Tropical Sun Lawn (25). the Plumbago – can you see the Continue alongside the Lagoons in its facilities to assist with small Plumbago Blue butterflies female cycad just before the little where you will walk past a orientation as you walk through There are a number of different fluttering around it? waterway and beyond it, several beautiful display of Xerochrysum the Gardens. The numbers used trees planted here which are Continue on the left path to the... Dioon spinulosum - Giant Dioon. bracteatum – Golden Everlasting in this walk reflect the numbers local species of the Central On your right, you will notice a Daisies – which create a sea of featured on this Gardens map. Queensland Coast Bioregion, Screens and Hedges row of Brachychiton acerifolius gold when in flower. such as the Eucalyptus raveretiana Garden (27) - Flame Trees - that look Follow the path across the - Black Ironbox, which is listed as spectacular when they bear their bridge to the... vulnerable. Continue on to the... This is where we trial plants that could be used in local gardens. red flowers. Leaping Jets Fountain (22)