Botanical Name: Brachychiton populneus
Common Name: Bottle Tree, Kurrajong Bottle Tree
Type of Plant: dicot: tree
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape an erect, single-trunked plant, with fairly short side branches, giving the tree a pyramidal-oval shape in youth; canopy slowly widens with age and the base of tree swells ("bottle-shaped"); young branches are green, smooth
Height 30'-50' (60')
Spread 1/2 - 2/3
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun preferred, tolerates partial sun inland
Soil well-draining soils; avoid poorly drained clay soils
Hardiness some frost (zones 12-24): prefers warm coastal habitats
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnate, alternate, ovate-lanceolate; 1 1/2"-3" long; margins entire or irregularly 3-5 lobed; glossy; petioles 1"-2" long
Flowers yellowish-white, bell-shaped, often red-blotched inside; 1/2" across, lack petals; borne in axillary panicles; summer
Fruit a follicle: 1 1/2"-3" long, dark brown-black at maturity
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
an attractive vertical accent tree for its form and foliage; clumps, slopes, street tree; leaves tend to 'flutter' in the wind
 
Landscape Care:
Watering an occasional deep soak; avoid heavy watering
Fertilizing little is needed after established
Pruning very little is required; remove the lowest branches if access under the canopy is desired
Pests/Diseases relatively free
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Australia
Family: Sterculiaceae

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