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Brachychiton acerifolius is a large tree of the family Malvaceae endemic to tropical and subtropical regions on the east coast of Australia.It is famous for the bright red bell-shaped flowers that often cover the whole tree when it is leafless.
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It is a dioecious, leafless, phreatophyte (meaning its roots penetrate deep down to water near the water table) that is found in sandy deserts but not stony plains, in areas with access to ground water such as ephemeral rivers and paleochannels, where sand accumulating in the shelter of its stems can form hummocks up to 1000–1500 m 2 in area and 4 meters in height.
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The leaves are needle-like, 7 to 25 mm (1 ⁄ 4 to 1 in) long and 1 to 1.5 mm (1 ⁄ 32 to 1 ⁄ 16 in) broad, soft, blunt-tipped, only slightly flattened in cross-section, pale glaucous blue-green above, and with two broad bands of bluish-white stomata below with only a narrow green midrib between the bands; they differ from those of any other ...
It has a brown trunk up to 25 centimetres (10 inches) in diameter. The wood is heavy and coarse and the bark is spongy and water-soaked. The branches of the current year are green; older branches are brown, or gray to white. The leaves are reduced to very small cusp-like scales, so that the plant appears nearly leafless. [4]
Leptomeria aphylla, commonly known as leafless currant-bush is a shrub that is native to south-eastern Australia. [ 1 ] The species was formally described in 1810 by botanist Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae , based on plant material collected at Memory Cove in South Australia .
Leaf of Koelreuteria paniculata var. paniculata. Koelreuteria paniculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae, native to China. Naturalized in Korea and Japan since at least the 1200s, [3] it was introduced in Europe in 1747, and to America in 1763, and has become a popular landscape tree worldwide.