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1 RAINFOREST TREES SUITABLE FOR BIRDS When planting out your garden or plots of native rainforest, it is important to have a range of suitable species, which produce flowers and/or fruit over the whole year. This is to provide birds, with a reasonably reliable food supply. Most plant species listed are native to the Northern Rivers and south-east Queensland. Those species native to north east Queensland are denoted by NEQ. The species covered include those with nectar rich flowers and those with fruit/seeds. The main reference for this page was Jones, David L. Rainforest Plants of Australia. Appendices XVII & XVIII. Reed Books. 1986. This is recommended reading for those interested. Unfortunately, it is now out of print, but it should be available in your local library. Species Tall Forage Growth Time Birds (m) Rate Attracted Tree Waratah Alloxylon pinnata 15 Nectar Moderate Oct - Jan Pink Silky Oak (NEQ) Alloxylon wickhamii 10-20 Nectar Moderate Sept - Oct Ash species Alphitonia species 8 Fruit Fast Pioneer Sept - Nov Black Bean Tree Castanospernum australe 15-20 Nectar Slow to Oct - Nov establish Brown Kurrajong Commersonia bartramia 10 Fruit Fast Pioneer March - July Pidgeonberry Ash Cryptocarya erythroxylon 15 Fruit Moderate May - Oct Weeping Fig (NEQ) Ficus benjamina 15-20 Fruit Fast July - Dec Sandpaper Fig Ficus fraseri 6 Fruit Fast May - Feb Port Jackson Fig Ficus rubiginosa 15-20 Fruit Moderate Feb - Oct Cedar Fig Ficus superba var henneana 15 Fruit Moderate Jan - Aug White Fig Ficus virens 15 Fruit Moderate June - Oct 2 Sliky Oak Grevillea robusta 20-30 Nectar Fast Sept - Oct Pink Euodia Melicope elleryana 18 Nectar Fast on Flowers: Jan - April wet sites Fruit: Sept- Dec Brush Cherry Syzygium australe 8-10 Fruit/Seed Moderate Dec - April Ribeberry Syzygium leuhmannii 15 Fruit/Seed Moderate Nov - March Coolamon Syzygium moorei 15 Nectar Slow Nov - Jan Golden Penda (NEQ) Xanthostemon 15 Nectar Moderate March – May chrysanthus Copyright. © 2004. David McMinn. All rights reserved .

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