Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Brachychiton acerifolius
Illawarra flame tree, Flame tree
Malvaceae
Rainforest. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north from Nowra. Often in gardens.
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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