THE REMNANT RAIN FOREST

Monsoon vine thickets on the coastal sand dunes of the Dampier Peninsula

'INTRODUCED PLANT PESTS'

BUSH TREE SHOWCASE

https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/

The Kimberley bush should not be burnt without knowledge - too often it is overburnt, burnt at the wrong time or burnt deliberately.  The resultant destruction of wildlife and native vegetation is very disturbing especially if ‘hot burns' occur frequently.

Feature article Ben Collins: "New light in a land shaped by fire"

"NORTHERN AUSTRALIA FIRE INFORMATION"

'BROOME AND BEYOND PLANT ID BOOK' - ONLINE

Feature article: The Jigal tree

Feature article: The Boab tree

New plants discovered in the Kimberley

Prominent flora along the Gibb River Road

Broome Bush Tucker https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=oa.232925811972162&type=3

Bushfoods WA https://www.facebook.com/groups/1657265531153738 Australian Bush Food, Bush Tucker, Medicines and Useful plants https://www.facebook.com/groups/1447265532218045

Feature Article: Eucalypt/Corymbia species found around Broome

Byblis liniflora

1. Abrus precatorioius - giddi giddi or crabs eye
2. Acacia adoxa - small low wattle - long 4cm seed pod and flowering late Sept.
3. Acacia bivenosa - Dune wattle
4. Acacia colei (Soap wattle)
5. Acacia ampliceps (Salt wattle) the seeds are edible
6. Acacia holosericea (Soap Tree)
7. Acacia dunnii* (not native to this area) (Elephant Ear Wattle)
8. Acacia eriopoda (Pindan Wattle) - very silvery in late Sept
9. Acacia monticola - very prickly rough flaking bark - curled pods in September
10. Acacia platycarpa - flowers in March - very white - 3 veins to each leaf
11. Acacia translucens* (not native to this area)  (Poverty Bush)
12. Acacia tumida (Wongai/Spear Wattle)
13. Adansonia gregorii (Boad Tree)
14. Amyema.benthamii (mistletoe) Kennedy's hill sand dunes
15. Adriana tomentosa (alongside the walking track Cable Beach) 'not common'
16. Atalaya hemiglauca - (guwarru) Western whitewood
17. Brachychiton diversifolius (Northern Kurrajong) - luminous green heart leaves in early November.
18. Breynia Cernva (Euphorbiaceae) Page 100 "Broome and Beyond" - Footpath Gubinge Rd. Large dense bush.
19. Buchnera ramosissima (beautiful white shrub in arid conditions)
20. Byblis liniflora Blue flower
21. Calandrinia strophiolate - pink wild flower https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/2871?fbclid=IwAR2Gun_y85cwpC1UEq94Do2zK0yDck4eEvAo92vAnNDuRQlfDeW-bANq2_I
22. Canavalia rosea - Beach bean
23. Calytrix exstipulata (Kimberley Heather or Pink Turkey Bush) not native to Broome but found around the town.
24. Carissa lanceolata (Conkerberry or Kungkura)
25. Cassytha filiformis (Yugulu) Koodikoodi
26. Cleome viscosa - Mustard bush - yellow star flower - put behind your ear to keep flies away
27. Clerodendrum tomentosum Lolly Bush (white flowers and velvet leaves, flowering/fruiting in May)
28. Crotaliaria cunninghamii (rattlepod bird flower)
29. Crotalaria crispata (Kimberley horse poison)
30. Crotalaria medicaginea - yellow flowers and 3 green leaves
31. Cyanostegia Cyanocalyx Northern Tinsel flower, (purple)
32. Cyperus bulbosus (bush onion) - sand dunes, closed grassland
33. Disticholstemon hispidulus (Moondoorj)
34. Dolichandrone heterophylla (Lemon Wood)
35. Ehretia saligna (Native Willow or Peachwood)
36. Erythrophleum chlorostachys (Iron wood)
37. Eucalyptus bigalerita - Northern salmon gum.  Just before Lennard River. 38 Anne St. corner of Herbert St.
38. Eucalyptus camaldulensis - River red gum - drops bark in November - seeds in December.  Native at Manari and Carnot Bay.
39. Eucalyptus tectifica - Darwin Box
40. Corymbia Greeniana  Broome Bloodwood (formerley Euc. Dampieri) The most common one in the Kimberley
41. Corymbia flavescens (formerley Eucalyptus flavescens) - Wrinkle leaf ghost gum - bark - leaves.  (found near the Nulungu water hole)  SEED CAPS ARE PINK.  (Example at green tank near water fountain and open lawn area flowering November)
42. Corymbia paractia - Cable Beach ghost gum Huge one at the start of the new Car Park off Robinson St, near CWA
43. Corymbia bella - Weeping Ghost gum - Willie Creek to Prices Point
44. Corymbia polycarpa - (formerley Eucalyptus polycarpa) - great example at the corner of Barker and Weld St. near the Dentist's.  Also the island opposite the Tropicana and the sand ridge by the Golf Club.
45. Corymbia) zygophylla (Broome Bloodwood) Huge very old one SMC boundary with ND.
46. Ficus opposita (Sandpaper fig) - in September
47. Gardenia pyriformis - (Native gardenia)
48. Gossypium australe (Native cotton) prominent  and common late Sept
49. Gossypium rotundifolium (white hibiscus or pink) Flowers Jan-June
50. Grevillea refracta (Silverleaf Grevillea)
51. Grevillea pyramidalis (Willing or Caustic Tree)
52. Grewia breviflora - coffee fruit - gum tree avenue
53. Grewia polygamma (dog's balls) - nice green bush in March
54. Grewia retusiforlia (shrub)
55. Gyrocarpus  Americanus (Helicopter tree)
56. Hakea macrocarpa (Boomerang Tree) - leave strap like, flowers May- July, large clump of flowers
57. Hakea aborescens (Kylie tree: flowers in February, thin leaves, large pod, small clump of flowers)
58. Hibiscus apodus (formerley panduriformis) - yellow hibiscus
59. Ipomoea pes-caprae (beach morning glory - pink flower)
60. Jacquermontia paniculata (white morning glory)
61. Jasminum didymum - creeper - black little fruit in June
62. Lysiphyllum Cunninghamii (Jigal Tree)
63. Lysiana spathulata (Nyilli Nyilli) 
64. Macroptilium atroppurpureum (purple bean) - creeper - South America - aggressive weed
65. Melaleuca alsophila - salt water paperbark
66. Melaleuca argentea - silver cadjeput - weeping - air is full of the honey smell in September
67. Marsdenia viridiflora (Magabala or Bush Banana)
68. Maytenus cunninghamii (corky shrub)
69. Myoporum tenuifolium - gawar - purple small fruit in August in coastal sand dunes - toxic to cattle.
70. Octimum basilicum Bush Basil
71. Pavetta browni
72. Psoralea martinii -- purple flower in September - greyish white wool - named in 1864 at Roebuck Bay
73. Persoonia falcata (Wild Pear) - Wankid - NOV
74. Planchonia careya (Cocky Apple)
75. Ptilotus exaltatus (Pink Mulla, Mulla) - Native spinach
76. Premna acuminata (Firestick tree)
77. Senna notabilis - the 'cockroach bush'
78. Sida rohlenae - low shrub - yellow flowers - Jan - 10 km east of Broome
79. Spinifex longifolius - beach spinifex - really binds the sand dunes - stops erosion
80. Templetonia hookeri* (Rooroo)
81. Tephrosia rosea dark purple flowers - 2m bush coastal dunes and shellgrit areas around Broome
82. Terminalia cunninghamii - Pindan Walnut
83. Tinospora smilacina (Snake vine)
84. Tricholesma zehlanicum - 1 metre high - pale blue flowers - camel bush (common alongside the walking track at Cable Beach) prickly
85. Tylophora cinerascens - oyster-catcher bill
86. Velleia panuriformis - one erect stem - flower bright orange colour - one metre high.
87. Ventilago viminalis (Medicine Bark)
88. Waltheria indica distinct leaves and beautiful little 5 petal flowers orange markings (found alongside TAFE footpath)
89. Wrightia saligna (Yellow Wax Flower)

Annual Native Sorghum (Cane Grass)

Coconut wells-Beagle Bay road

• Codonocarpus cotinifolius (desert poplar) 5m, especially in burnt areas, camels love it.
• Velleia panduriformis (pindan poison) 1.5m,  long stems from a central area, yellow flowers, especially after fire.
• Sida rohlenae - low shrub - yellow flowers - Jan - 10 km east of Broome
• Trichodesma zeylanicum (camel bush) – very common especially after a fire.  Flowers are pale blue.  Brown honeyeaters eat the nectar in September.  Hairs can irritate.
• Northern Tinsel Flower (Cyanostegia cyanocalyx)

This spectacular large shrub has purple flowers and loves to grow in loose sand in cleared pindan country. Seen on the way to Bidyadanga, south of Broome, north of Broome, the Northern Tinsel Flower is more commonly seen on the sand dunes of the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts. According to ‘Broome and Beyond' attempts in Broome to germinate the seeds of this stunning shrub have been unsuccessful. https://skipas.wordpress.com/.../cyanostegia-cyanocalyx.../ ( Photo: Krissi Van)

1. The spiky inflorescences of Beach Spinifex (Spinifex longifolius), commonly found growing on sand dunes on the Kimberley coast.

    

This is buffalo clover (Alysicarpus vaginalis), an introduced plant, but mainly restricted to Broome gardens, a little in minyirr.

Spiderling or tar vine (Boerhavia coccinea) native.

A fantastic app for your phone is iNaturalist. Once downloaded follow the prompts on the app to take a photo and you will be presented with probable ID's. Others will contribute to the ID and it will appear in your email feed. It's a brilliant app. Try to include a photo of the flower and a photo of the leaves.

Terrestrial Botany

Kenneally, K., Edinger, D. and Willing, T. (1996). Broome and Beyond: Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia »  Department of Conservation and Land Management, Como, Western Australia.

Roebuck Bay Working Group (2019) Coastal Gardens A planting guide for Broome on the Dampier Peninsula »

ORNAMENTAL INTRODUCED PLANTS TO BROOME

Planchonia careya/Cocky (photo Lindsey Dixon)