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Take Contact Details Another SUNSHINE COAST REGIONAL COUNCIL Caloundra Customer Service Look..... 1 Omrah Avenue, Caloundra FRONT p: 07 5420 8200 e: [email protected] Maroochydore Customer Service 11-13 Ocean Street, Maroochydore p: 07 5475 8501 e: [email protected] Nambour Customer Service Cnr Currie & Bury Street, Nambour p: 07 5475 8501 e: [email protected] Tewantin Customer Service 9 Pelican Street, Tewantin p: 07 5449 5200 e: [email protected] YOUR LOCAL CONTACT Our Locals are Beauties HINTERLAND EDITION HINTERLAND EDITION 0 Local native plant guide 2 What you grow in your garden can have major impact, Introduction 3 for better or worse, on the biodiversity of the Sunshine Native plants 4 - 41 Coast. Growing a variety of native plants on your property can help to attract a wide range of beautiful Wildlife Gardening 20 - 21 native birds and animals. Native plants provide food and Introduction Conservation Partnerships 31 shelter for wildlife, help to conserve local species and Table of Contents Table Environmental weeds 42 - 73 enable birds and animals to move through the landscape. Method of removal 43 Choosing species which flower and fruit in different Succulent plants and cacti 62 seasons, produce different types of fruit and provide Water weeds 70 - 71 roost or shelter sites for birds, frogs and lizards can greatly increase your garden’s real estate value for native References and further reading 74 fauna. You and your family will benefit from the natural pest control, life and colour that these residents and PLANT TYPE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS visitors provide – free of charge! Habitat for native frogs Tall Palm/Treefern Local native plants also improve our quality of life in Attracts native insects other ways. They create privacy and shade, protect Tree from extremes of weather and stabilise slopes, thereby Attracts native birds reducing soil erosion and helping to improve water quality. Shrub Suitable for planting near powerlines Plants from elsewhere in the world or even other parts Local Native Plants Groundcover of Australia can have a number of negative impacts on the local environment. Some are invasive weeds Grass which displace local native species and reduce diversity of species and habitats. Others are toxic to native fauna, diminish water quality and can even change soil Vine chemistry and structure. In the latter part of this booklet, you’ll meet some of the PLANT TYPE FORMS ‘garden thugs’ – garden plants which, like human thugs, behave themselves when you keep an eye on them but TT Tall tree (>25m) ‘jump the fence’ if allowed to get out of control. They do this by enticing birds to eat their fruit and carry the seeds MT Medium tree (15-25m) into bushland. Worse still, irresponsible gardeners dump ST Small tree (5-15m) garden waste over the fence or on roadsides allowing these thugs to bully our native plants out of their homes. TS Tall shrub (>5m) You may be surprised to know that of all the weeds in Australia, two thirds are escaped garden plants! MS Medium shrub (2-5m) So – take another look – our locals are beauties. Plant SS Small shrub (0-2m) them in your garden and help to keep the Sunshine Coast a special place. Piccabeen palm Prickly treefern Archontophoenix Cyathea leichhardtiana cunninghamiana A slender treefern that Palm/Treefern A self cleaning palm requires shade and ample Palm/Treefern which is closely related moisture. The trunk to the widely cultivated and base of the fronds Alexandra palm. A very are covered with short neat palm which attracts sharp prickles. Resents a wide variety of wildlife disturbance. when fruiting, eg fruit doves, parrots. Excellent for wet position and a good replacement for the weedy Cocos or Queen palm. Leaves provide food for palm dart butterflies. Images courtesy of Sue Aspland Image courtesy of Sue Aspland Straw treefern Cabbage tree palm Cyathea cooperi Livistona australis A handsome treefern for A good substitute for the a sheltered, frost free introduced Fan Palm in position. The trunk is very larger gardens. The fronds decorative with oval scars have numerous spines left by the shed fronds. along the stems so this The developing fronds are palm should not be planted covered in long golden close to paths or lawn scales. Choose location areas. carefully as it produces masses of spore which can be a nuisance inside houses or in water tanks. Image courtesy of Sue Aspland Image courtesy of Sue Aspland Jackwood Brown pine Tree Tree Cryptocarya glaucescens Podocarpus elatus A handsome native laurel Hardy tree with decorative for good soils. Large, glossy leaves and purple glossy green leaves fruit, the swollen stalk of have an attractive silvery which is edible. Belongs reverse. Excellent for to a group of very ancient attracting native fauna plants. Large specimens including king parrots develop attractive flaky and white headed grey bark. Fruit is pigeons. Leaves provide attractive to many native food for larvae of birds. orchard, blue triangle, bronze flat and Macleay’s swallowtail butterflies. An outstanding shade tree for larger gardens. Image courtesy of Glenn Leiper Images courtesy of Glenn Leiper TT TT Riberry Black she-oak Syzygium leuhmannii Allocasuarina littoralis (featured) Forest oak Beautiful flushes of pink Allocasuarina torulosa new growth and edible pink-red fruits in Summer A very attractive tree with make this a desirable tree fine ‘foliage’ and corky for a large yard. Tends bark. Some forms have to form a compact tree weeping foliage. Requires when grown in the open good soil and drainage. and can be pruned to Black sheoak is a hardy form a hedge. Fruit species suitable for poor is eaten by many bird soils. Crown is more open species. than forest oak. Both species are an important food source of Glossy black cockatoos. Images courtesy of Sue Aspland Image courtesy of Sue Aspland TT TT Lillypilly White hollywood Tree Tree Acmena smithii Auranticarpa rhombifolia A variable species, A widely cultivated tree available as a small- with showy heads of leaved form (‘var. minor’) white flowers followed by which is a tall shrub or masses of orange yellow the large- leaved form fruits in Summer. Flowers which is a medium are attractive to adult tree. The edible (but not butterflies while the sticky very appealing) pink red seeds are eaten by fruit attracts many bird many birds. species. Leaves provide food for eastern dusk-flat and bronze-flat butterfly larvae. Creamy white clusters of flowers in Spring and Summer. Images courtesy of Stephanie Haslam Images courtesy of Glenn Leiper MT MT Hairy walnut Brown tamarind Endiandra pubens Castanospora alphandii An appealing rainforest A very beautiful tree from tree that requires a rainforests of the region. sheltered moist location. Glossy upper leaf surface Aniseed scented flowers contrasts with the pearl are followed by large grey underside on this red fruit. Leaves are handsome tree. Pale larval food of Macleay’s green soft new growth. swallowtail and blue tiger Perfumed flowers butterflies. in Autumn. Image courtesy of Glenn Leiper Image courtesy of Glenn Leiper MT MT Sandpaper fig Guioa Guioa semiglauca (featured) Tree Tree Ficus fraseri Northern guioa An excellent tree for Guioa acutifolia attracting fauna. Has unusual rough textured The pearl grey underside leaves and bears edible of the leaflets provide a fruit in Spring. A valuable pleasing contrast to the Winter food source for dark green upper surface. many fruit eating birds. A hardy tree often used Leaves may provide food in rainforest regeneration. for common moonbeam The large purple line-blue butterfly larvae. Roots butterfly larvae feed on the are not as invasive as young leaves, flower buds most figs, but still should and young fruit. not be planted close to structures or pipes. Image courtesy of Glenn Leiper Image courtesy of Glenn Leiper MT MT Black tea tree Red kamala (featured) Melaleuca bracteata Mallotus philippensis White kamala An upright tree with Mallotus discolor compact crown and small leaves. Several Leaves have an unusual forms, including one with coating of red glands on golden foliage, have been the lower surface. The selected. Unlike many flowers are very attractive of the genus this species to insects which in turn has a hard black bark. attract insectivorous birds. The small bottlebrush White kamala is a smaller flowers in Spring species with yellow glands are inviting to nectar on the leaf underside. Its feeding birds. Should fruit is sought by native not be planted close to birds. structures or pipes. Image courtesy of Glenn Leiper Images courtesy of Glenn Leiper MT MT 0 Malletwood Ribbonwood Euroschinus falcatus Rhodamnia argentea Tree Tree The glossy green upper Attractive specimen or leaf surface contrasts shade tree. The foliage vividly with the white has a pleasant fruity hairy underside. Fragrant mango smell when four-petalled white crushed. The tiny pink flowers in Spring are flowers attract bees to followed by glossy red to the garden in Spring and black berries that attract the black fleshy fruit are fruit-eating birds. eaten by a range of bird species including the rose- crowned fruit-dove. Image courtesy of Glenn Leiper Image courtesy of Glenn Leiper MT MT Peanut tree Maiden’s blush Sterculia quadrifida Sloanea australis A very ornamental semi- Large glossy toothed deciduous tree, with leaves make this a soft bright green leaves. beautiful tree year round. The lemon-scented New growth is a delightful blooms are followed pink colour and flowers by spectacular bright are large, white and orange-red capsules that showy. Hairy capsule split open to reveal silky splits into three segments black seeds. The seeds revealing black fruits are edible either raw or with an orange fleshy roasted.

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