Alice Springs FloraFlora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
Whilst the surrounding Central Australia is home to a wonderful display of endemic plants, at the heart is Alice Springs where visitors can get the chance to see up close some of the amazing flora, both planted and natural displays.
Whilst there are a great display of flora in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden and Alice Springs Desert Park, just a walk around town will give you opportunities to see some of the plants that grow here, including some amazing trees and shrubs, from the River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) along the Todd River, the glorious Ghost Gum (Corymbia aparrerinja) along some of the Alice Springs streets, Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis) in the garden of the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, Sturt’s Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum) all around town and on Untyeyetwelye (Anzac Hill), and the genus Senna (previously known as Cassias) in plantings and growing wild around some of the hills and ranges.
There are of course some of our smaller flowering plants including Sturt Desert Peas (Swainsona formosa), Fairy Grass (Sporobolus caroli), Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum), Native Bluebell (Wahlenbergia capillaris) and Yellow Billybutton (Calocephalus platycephalus) to name just a few.
The beautiful white trunk of the Ghost gum / Ilwempe (Corymbia aparrerinja) can be seen in plantings around Alice Springs, with the following one in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden
Some great plantings of the rare Acacia peuce, commonly known as the Waddy-wood, in both the Olive Pink Botanic Garden and Alice Springs Desert Park.
Alice Springs FloraFlora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
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