Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachychiton acerifolius
Common name
Illawarra flame tree, Flame tree
Family
Malvaceae
Where found
Rainforest. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north from Nowra. Often in gardens.
Notes
Tree to 35 m tall, deciduous. Bark finely fissured and tessellated. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 9-30 cm long, 50-170 mm wide, entire to 3- or 5-lobed, hairless, tips pointed. Male and female flowers on the same tree. Flowers 10-25 mm long, bright red, tubular, with 5 lobes. Flowers in branched clusters of 100-200 flowers, produced in spring on leafless branches.
Family was Sterculiaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachychiton~acerifolius (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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