Family: Caesalpinioideae Common name: Bauhinia Bauhinia forms a large spreading tree on both red and yellow soils, and is freely browsed by cattle.
Brachychiton diversifolius
Family: Sterculiaceae. Common name: Northern Kurrajong. It is 'diversifolius' because the leaves are a narrow oval when the tree is small but a heart shape later. Eaten by cattle. Deciduous.The pods are smooth outside and the seeds are said to be edible.
juvenile leaf
Brachychiton paradoxus
Family: Sterculiaceae. Common name: Red flowered kurrajong. This tree is often small. The flowers appear on the bare plant after the deciduous leaves have dropped. It is one of few large leafed trees on Sunday Creek.
juvenile leaves........
a 25cm leaf
Young plant defoliated by cattle.
Capparis umbonata
Family: Capparidaceae. Common name: Wild orange. This member of the caper family has edible friut, but you have to be quick to catch them ripe before the wildlife does.
an unusually big (6m) tree
Erythrina vespertilio
Family: Fabaceae. Common name: Batswing Coral tree. Deciduous. Grows in slightly wetter spots.
Erythrophleum chlorostachys
Family: Caesalpiniodeae. Common name: Ironwood, Cooktown ironwood. The timber of choice for wooden posts, also good firewood. The leaves are very poisonous and easily kill stock from other areas.
Erythroxylum ellipticum
Family: Erythroxylaceae. Common name: Kerosenewood. Easily confused with, but less common than, Rosewood (Terminalia volucris).