Coast Banksia Banksia integrifolia
Grows in sandy coastal areas of eastern Australia, including the NSW Central Coast.
The bark is grey, rough and wrinkled.
Leaves are dark green with pale undersides and are usually lanceolate.
Flowers appear from January to June and are shaped like round yellow hairbrushes.
Cobs (deadheads) are brown and have seed-pods like round beaks.
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Cabbage Tree palm Livistona australis
Grows from south coast of NSW to northern Queensland, in "moist open forest, often in swampy sites and on margins of rainforests or near the sea" (Wikipedia).
Tall palm with a thin trunk.
Leaves are fan-shaped in round crown.
Fruit are small hard black berries.
Livistona australis
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Gymea Lily, Spear Lily Doryanthes excelsa
Grows in open forest in eastern NSW. The NSW Central Coast is at the centre of its territory.
Leaves are large spear-shaped, clumping at the base of the plant.
Flower is a head-sized red flower on a stalk up to 6 feet tall.
Iconic flower of the NSW Central Coast.
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Lilly Pilly tree (or lillipilli, Australian cherry) Acmena smithii
Native to the NSW Central Coast.
Popular in suburbia as a dense hedge.
Leaves atop hedge plant go red in spring.
Fruit are small pink or purple berries.
Flowers are small and white.
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Grey Mangrove Avicennia marina subsp. australasica
Grows in estuaries from Queensland to Victoria.
Height to 9 metres.
Has air-breathing roots, seen as small thin stalks coming up through the sand or mud.
Flowers are small and white turning golden.
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River Mangrove Aegiceras corniculatum
Grows in saltwater from Queensland to Merimbula on the NSW South Coast, usually in the company of Avicenna marina.
Height to 4 metres.
Leaves alternate along the twig and do not grow opposite one another.
Flowers are tiny and white, shaped like 5-pointed stars, faintly scented.
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Coastal Wattle Acacia sophorae
Grows from South-East Queensland to South Australia, and Tasmania, usually on sand dunes.
Height to 2-3 metres in sheltered positions, prostrate on dunes.
Flowers are yellow, growing in elongated spikes.
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