Tree Handbook

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Acacia boormanii

Snowy River Wattle

Typical mature height: 5m
Useful in: freeways, reserves & parks
Sites for best growth: most

Acacia implexa

Lightwood

Typical mature height: in cultivation to 10m
Useful in: streetscapes, parks, reserves
Sites for best growth: tolerates many sites well

Acacia maidenii

Maiden’s Wattle

Typical mature height: 15m
Useful in: streetscapes, parks, foreshores
Sites for best growth: well-drained soils, full sun to semi-shade

Acacia melanoxylon

Blackwood

Typical mature height: to 20m in cultivation
Useful in: broad streetscapes, reserves, parks
Sites for best growth: moist, well-drained

Acer buergerianum

Trident Maple

Typical mature height: to 9m
Useful in: streetscapes, restricted areas
Sites for best growth: clay soils, occasional irrigation

Acer campestre ‘Queen Elizabeth’

Queen Elizabeth Hedge Maple

Typical mature height: 10-12m
Useful in: narrow sites, streetscapes
Sites for best growth: suitable for fairly dry sites

Acer monspessulanum

Montpelier Maple

Typical mature height: usually between 6-9m
Useful in: streetscapes, parks, reserves
Sites for best growth: tolerates many sites well

Acmena smithii

Lilly Pilly

Typical mature height: variable, to 15m
Useful in: streetscapes, avenues, screening
Sites for best growth: moisture-retentive, irrigated

Agonis flexuosa

Willow Myrtle

Typical mature height: to 12m
Useful in: streetscapes
Sites for best growth: sandy, poor soils

Allocasuarina littoralis

Black Sheoak

Typical mature height: to 8m
Useful in: height-restricted areas, as screening
Sites for best growth: moist-to-dry, well-drained

Allocasuarina torulosa

Forest Oak, Rose Sheoak

Typical mature height: 5-12m in Melbourne
Useful in: streetscapes, reserves and parks
Sites for best growth:

Allocasuarina verticillata

Drooping Sheoak

Typical mature height: variable 5 to 10m
Useful in: height-restricted poor soils
Sites for best growth: most sites appropriate

Angophora costata

Smooth-barked Apple

Typical mature height: 20m
Useful in: streetscapes, parks
Sites for best growth: all with free drainage

Angophora hispida

Dwarf Apple

Typical mature height: 8m
Useful in: restricted space streetscapes
Sites for best growth: all with free drainage

Araucaria heterophylla

Norfolk Island Pine

Typical mature height: 30m+
Useful in: streetscapes, avenues, foreshores
Sites for best growth: well-drained, sands

Arbutus species

Madrone, Strawberry Tree

Typical mature height: 6-9m
Useful in: parks & display plantings
Sites for best growth: well-drained, some irrigation

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Banksia ‘Giant Candles’

‘Giant Candles’ Banksia

Typical mature height: to 5m
Useful in: streetscapes, as display
Sites for best growth: all well-drained, in full sun

Banksia integrifolia

Coast Banksia

Typical mature height: to 15m in cultivation
Useful in: width-restricted areas
Sites for best growth: most soils, both wet and sandy

Banksia marginata

Silver Banksia

Typical mature height: MTG provenances 5-8m
Useful in: streetscapes, as display
Sites for best growth: all well-drained, in full sun to semi-shade

Brachychiton acerifolius and hybrids

Illawara Flame Tree & Griffith Pink

Typical mature height: typically 8-20m
Useful in: parks, nature strips, carparks
Sites for best growth: many, including hostile

Brachychiton populneus

Kurrajong Bottle Tree

Typical mature height: 5- 15 m
Useful in: parks, carparks, nature strips.
Sites for best growth: High - low fertile soils, good drainage.

Brachychiton rupestris

Bottle Tree

Typical mature height: 20m
Useful in: Parks, reserves, streetscapes
Sites for best growth: Well-drained soils, but generally widely adapted.

Callistemon hybrids

‘Harkness’ & ‘Kings Park Special’ (Bottlebrush)

Typical mature height: to 6m (‘Harkness’)
Useful in: streetscapes, reserves & parks
Sites for best growth: many site conditions

Callistemon salignus

Willow Bottlebrush

Typical mature height: 7m
Useful in: height-restricted areas
Sites for best growth: all with reasonable irrigation

Calodendrum capense

Cape Chestnut

Typical mature height: 10m
Useful in: Parks, reserves, streetscapes
Sites for best growth: Well drained soils, access to some summer water

Casuarina cunninghamiana

River Sheoak

Typical mature height: in Melbourne to 20m
Useful in: streetscapes, avenues, mass plantings
Sites for best growth: reasonably well-drained

Ceanothus arboreus 'Trewithen Blue'

Trewithen Blue Island Ceanothus

Typical mature height: 5m
Useful in: Parks and reserves and possibly some street plantings
Sites for best growth: Best with well-drained sites

Ceratonia siliqua

Carob or St John's Bread

Typical mature height:
Useful in: background foil, street tree
Sites for best growth: all well drained soils

Cercis chinensis 'Avondale'

Avondale Chinese Redbud

Typical mature height: 3m
Useful in: Parks, reserves, small streets.
Sites for best growth: Well drained sites with some irrigation over Summer

Cinnamomum camphora

Typical mature height: 20m
Useful in: mature streetscapes
Sites for best growth: most, ample water best

Corymbia (Eucalyptus) citriodora

Lemon-scented Gum

Typical mature height: to 20m in Melbourne
Useful in: avenues, parks
Sites for best growth: most soil types, full sun

Corymbia (Eucalyptus) eximia

Yellow Bloodwood

Typical mature height: most often 12m in Melbourne
Useful in: streetscapes, avenues, parks
Sites for best growth: most soil types, full sun

Corymbia (Eucalyptus) ficifolia

Red-flowering Gum

Typical mature height: to 15m
Useful in: streetscapes, parks
Sites for best growth: all with free drainage

Corymbia (Eucalyptus) maculata

Spotted Gum

Typical mature height: to 20m in Melbourne
Useful in: broad streets, avenues, parks and reserves
Sites for best growth: moist-to-dry, coastal sands

Typical mature height: 8m
Useful in: parks, large avenue plantings, and maritime plantings
Sites for best growth: significant reflective heat, well drained soils, locations with temperatures above -10C minimum.

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Elaeocarpus eumundii

Eumundi Quandong or Smooth-leaved Quandong

Typical mature height: 8m (maximum 3m breadth)
Useful in: evergreen screen, planter boxes
Sites for best growth: deep fertile well - drained soils, full sun to part shade, frost free.

Eribotrya deflexa

Bronze Loquat

Typical mature height: 5m in Melbourne
Useful in: Parks, reserves, streetscapes
Sites for best growth: Well-drained sites

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

River Red Gum

Typical mature height: 15m+
Useful in: parks, reserves, broad avenues
Sites for best growth: clay soils, available water

Eucalyptus kitsoniana

Gippsland Mallee

Typical mature height: 5-8m in Melbourne
Useful in: streetscapes, planter boxes, freeways
Sites for best growth: most, including waterlogged

Eucalyptus leucoxylon

Yellow Gum

Typical mature height: from 4 to 30m
Useful in: streetscapes, parks, most locations
Sites for best growth: most sites, provenance-specific

Eucalyptus mannifera

Red Spotted Gum

Typical mature height: to 20m, ‘Little Spotty’ to 8m
Useful in: streetscsapes, parks
Sites for best growth: dry, well-drained

Eucalyptus melliodora

Yellow Box

Typical mature height: to 20m
Useful in: broad streets, parks
Sites for best growth: acid pH, well-drained

Eucalyptus polyanthemos

Red Box

Typical mature height: to 20m
Useful in: avenues, parks, broad streets
Sites for best growth: most, well-drained & gravelly

Eucalyptus radiata

Narrow-leaved Peppermint

Typical mature height: most to 20m
Useful in: broad streets, parks
Sites for best growth: tolerates most soils, conditions

Eucalyptus scoparia

Wallangara White Gum

Typical mature height: 12m
Useful in: streetscapes, parks
Sites for best growth: relatively dry, well-drained

Eucalyptus sideroxylon ‘Rosea’

‘Rosea’ Red Ironbark

Typical mature height: variable to 20m
Useful in: broad streetscapes, parks
Sites for best growth: all reasonably well-drained

Eucalyptus tricarpa

Red Ironbark

Typical mature height: 20m+
Useful in: parks, reserves
Sites for best growth: well-drained to dry soils

Ficus macrophylla

Moreton Bay Fig

Typical mature height:
Useful in: broad streetscapes, parks
Sites for best growth: moisture retentive but well-drained soils; low frost

Ficus microcarpa var. hillii

Hill’s Weeping Fig

Typical mature height: to 15m
Useful in: streetscapes, displays
Sites for best growth: moisture retentive but well-drained

Ficus platypoda

Rock Fig

Typical mature height: to 8m
Useful in: streetscapes, displays
Sites for best growth: moisture retentive but well-drained

Fraxinus ornus

Flowering Ash

Typical mature height: to 10m
Useful in: parks, broad streetscapes
Sites for best growth: well drained, irrigated

Fraxinus pennsylvanica ‘Cimmzam’ & ‘Urbdell’

Cimmaron and Urbanite Ash

Typical mature height: 13-15m in Melbourne
Useful in: streetscapes, reserves and parks
Sites for best growth: most sites appropriate

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Geijera parviflora

Wilga, Australian Willow

Typical mature height: to 9m
Useful in: streetscapes, height-restricted areas
Sites for best growth: well-drained, all pH

Ginkgo biloba

Maidenhair Tree

Typical mature height: 15m (with extreme age)
Useful in: streetscapes, park plantings
Sites for best growth: clays, most sites

Gleditsia triacanthos

Honeylocust

Typical mature height: 20m
Useful in: broad streets, roundabouts
Sites for best growth: all well-drained sites

Grevillea banksii (Pink and White flowering forms)

Red or dwarf silky oak

Typical mature height: 3.5m in Melbourne
Useful in: Parks and reserves
Sites for best growth: Reasonable drainage, frost free

Hakea selections

Typical mature height: 4m in Melbourne
Useful in: Parks, reserves, streetscapes
Sites for best growth: Warm to hot, reasonable drainage

Koelreuteria paniculata

Golden-rain Tree

Typical mature height: 7-10m
Useful in: avenues, broad streetscapes
Sites for best growth: acid or alkaline sites, in full sun

Lagerstroemia hybrids

‘Comanche/‘Natchez’/‘Tuscarora’/‘Yuma’/‘Zuni’

Typical mature height: 3.5 to 8m
Useful in: all uses
Sites for best growth: fortnightly summer irrigation

Lophostemon confertus

Brush Box

Typical mature height: variable, to 15m
Useful in: streetscapes, avenues
Sites for best growth: well-drained, some irrigation

Maclura pomifera ‘Wichita’

Wichita Osage Orange

Typical mature height: to 20m with age
Useful in: broad streetscapes, parks
Sites for best growth: most

Magnolia grandiflora cvs.

Bull Bay Magnolia

Typical mature height: 5-10m
Useful in: street tree parks
Sites for best growth: water retentive soils; heat

Melia azedarach 'Elite'

Chinaberry, White Cedar

Typical mature height: most often up to 10m
Useful in: streetscapes, roundabouts
Sites for best growth: all, occasional summer water is best

Olea europaea selections

‘Swan Hill’ and ‘Tolley’s Upright’ Olive

Typical mature height: 7m
Useful in: streetscapes, reserves & parks
Sites for best growth: tolerate most site conditions

Pinus canariensis

Canary Island Pine

Typical mature height: 20-45m
Useful in: Accent planting; avenues ; clipped hedge or screen.
Sites for best growth: Coastal plantings, parks and roadsides. Optimal locations are where rainfall is greater than 750mm per year.

Pinus halepensis

Aleppo Pine or Jerusalem Pine

Typical mature height: 10-20m
Useful in: Large landscapes; road verges; backdrop screening and mass plantings
Sites for best growth: Will grow well in sites of less than 250mm rainfall

Pinus pinea

Italian Stone Pine or Umbrella Pine

Typical mature height: 25m variable
Useful in: Broad road verges, parks, near coastal planting.
Sites for best growth: well-drained, slightly acidic soils

Pistacia chinensis

Chinese Pistachio

Typical mature height: 10m
Useful in: streetscapes, parks
Sites for best growth: well-drained sites, very versatile

Pittosporum crassifolium

Karo

Typical mature height: 5-9m
Useful in: nature strips or hedging screen
Sites for best growth: many site conditions suitable, non-water logged soils.

Platanus orientalis ‘Autumn Glory’ & ‘Digitata’ (Hillier Nursery Form)

‘Autumn Glory’ & ‘Digitata’ (Hillier Nursery Form)

Typical mature height: <18m
Useful in: streetscapes
Sites for best growth: well-drained, occasional irrigation

Platanus x acerifolia ‘Columbia’ & ‘Liberty’

‘Columbia’ & ‘Liberty’ hybrid Plane

Typical mature height: 30m
Useful in: broad streetscapes, pollarded
Sites for best growth: tolerant of most sites

Pyrus calleryana cultivars

Callery Pear selections

Typical mature height: 11-14m
Useful in: all landscape situations
Sites for best growth: organic soils, irrigated

Pyrus fauriei 'Westwood'

Westwood Asian Pear

Typical mature height: 4m in Melbourne
Useful in: Parks, reserves, streetscapes
Sites for best growth: Widely adapted

Pyrus nivalis

Snow Pear

Typical mature height: 15m
Useful in: Parks, reserves, streetscapes
Sites for best growth: Generally widely adapted if some summer water is available