Botanical name Brachychiton acerifolius
A common name Flame Tree
Seedling
Not yet.
Young plant
Will have to wait a while.
Juvenile
Reasonably mature
Sassafras
This is one of 3 Brachychiton acerifolius I found as I was exploring a bit of South facing ridge, not far from the house as the Pidgeon flies. You can see dead and rotting Privett branches on the ground.
This was the largest of the 3 at the time, about as high as the bottom of it's current canopy. There was another smaller specimen maybe 20cm to its' left. I transplanted it, it also is doing well. There is another one just out of frame, downhill on the right hand side. It has had a hard life with nibblers until I created a special cage for it, to prevent nibbling from underneath, with 3 stakes to prevent the cage being pushed over. Must be tasty.
Flame Trees can be seen as red spots on the hills around the top end of Mooral Creek at the right time of year.
I will definately be propagating from this one when it sets seed.
That's a fair size Tallowwood trunk you can see poking above the hill to the left of the Flame Tree, immediatley behind me would be a Denhamia celastroides.
This is the transplanted Flame Tree I mentioned above, caged for reasons as above.