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Racehorse Tree

Racehorse Tree
Photo: Sheldon Navie
Invasive Plant
Racehorse Tree
Tipuana tipu
 

This large fast growing attractive tree grows to 20m with a similar spread. Dark green pinnate leaves attach to somewhat arching branches. Terminal clusters of yellow Cassia-like flowers appear in Spring. Winged seed pods follow holding several seeds in each. The tree is used widely as it provides excellent shade.

 

HOW IT SPREADS

  • Seeds are plentiful and are spread by water, wind and gravity.
  • These seeds have a high rate of germination.
 
 
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  • Syncarpia glomulifera - Turpentine Tree
  • Albizia julibrissin 'Rosea' - Silk Tree

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Alternative Plants

Leopard Tree
Photo: immij floramedia
Alternative Plant Leopard Tree
Caesalpinia ferrea
Trees and Shrubs
 

This is a beautiful tree growing to 12m in height. It has elegant limbs with dappled cream and grey bark forming an erect multi-stemmed trunk. The foliage is graceful and fern like, forming an umbrella shaped crown. It has yellow flowers borne on short erect spikes in late summer to autumn. Whilst sometimes considered evergreen, it can lose much of its foliage during winter.

Native Frangipani
Photo: Lorna Rose
Alternative Plant Native Frangipani
Hymenosporum flavum
Trees and Shrubs
 

Clusters of scented, creamy yellow flowers cover the tree in spring amid shiny, dark-green leaves. Growing 10-15m high in the garden. Reasonable frost tolerance.

Yellow Flame Tree
Photo: immij floramedia
Alternative Plant Yellow Flame Tree
Peltophorum pterocarpum
Trees and Shrubs
 

Fast growing evergreen tree growing to 15m. It has deep green fern like foliage that has a bronze edge to the new growth. It is covered in terminal sprays of perfumed bright yellow flowers with crinkled petals that emerge from rust red buds. It is a very effective shade tree for the Sub- Tropics.

 
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