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Match the numbers to the plant ID signs in Australian Outback. Find them all! Wollemi Pine Queensland Kauri 4 7 Wollemia nobilis Agathis robusta Red-Flowering Gum An IUCN Critically Endangered An IUCN Red List species from 1 Corymbia ficifolia tree with fewer than 100 left in the Queensland (Atherton Tableland wild. It is related to other pre- and Fraser Island). This towering, Covered by red blossoms, this flowering historic coniferous trees such as the coniferous species was logged gum tree is well known as a spectacular Queensland kauri and Norfolk Island extensively causing it to become street tree in Mediterranean climates. pine. Despite its common name, it is threatened. It was thought to be a member of the not a true pine. eucalyptus group until the mid-1990s, when its genus was changed from Eucalyptus to Corymbia.

Once thought to be long extinct, living specimens Kauris are part of an ancient group of trees were found in 1994 in a remote canyon near the once found worldwide. However, these trees This plant gets its species name of ficifolia Blue Mountains. The discovery was the equivalent to disappeared from the Northern Hemisphere FUN FUN FACT FACT

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Little Kurrajong Honeybush Southern Blechnum Banksia 2 5 8 Brachychiton bidwillii Hakea lissocarpha Banksia blechnifolia A rare, small-growing tree Native to southwest Australia. A groundcover banksia from from coastal Queensland This shrub produces a mass of southwest Australia. These and New South Wales. Like white to pink flowers in winter. It is small plants are named for their most brachychitons, this tree another plant that can regenerate resemblance to Blechnum ferns. flowers before the leaves from its underground root Many of the groundcover banksias emerge in the spring. structures after fires. are pollinated by small marsupials.

All but one species of banksia comes from Australia Kurrajong translates to “fishing line”—which is what A very good honey is made by the and of those species over 90% are found growing in Indigenous Australians used the bark to make. bees that visit these plants. FUN FUN FUN FACT FACT FACT the southwest corner of Australia.

Red Silky Oak Northern Wattle Goldfield’s Blackbutt 3 6 9 Grevillea banksii Acacia crassicarpa Eucalyptus lesouefii A coastal Queensland species A fast-growing tree from Native to the gold-mining region with spectacular flowers. This Queensland, Australia and Papua of Western Australia, this plant plant has become a parent in New Guinea (PNG). It is on the thrives with little water and the development of new colorful IUCN Red List as a result of tolerates salty soils. This species hybrid plants in the nursery trade. intense logging in PNG. was named in honor of Albert Le Souef, a man with a rich zoological history in Australia.

A mallee is a shorter-growing type of eucalyptus that Grevillea is in the Proteaceae family with fellow It has been reported that, in the higher rainfall areas has developed ways to survive growing in arid areas Australian natives banksias, hakeas, and the delicious of its range, this tree can reach 15 feet tall in its first with common wildfires. In some cases, a mallee will put FUN FUN FUN FACT macadamia nut tree. FACT year of growth. FACT out new sprouts after it has burned to the ground.