Baobab family

Bombacaceae in Australia

including Byttneriaceae, Durionaceae, and Tiliaceae.

DILLENIIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Christine Ashe

(updated 29 August 2009)

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Flowers in Australia

Adansonia gregorii
Australian Baobab
Bundaberg, December 2006

Durio zibethinus
Durian
Bundaberg, April 2008

Grewia occidentalis
Crossberry
Concord, October 2007

Pachira aquatica
Money Tree
Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney
December 2008

Plants in Bombacaceae have been used as foodplants for the caterpillars of a number of Australian Butterfly and Moth species, including:


Phaedyma shepherdi

Conogethes punctiferalis

Earias huegeliana

Earias perhuegeli

Xanthodes congenita

Paracrama latimargo

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