Bottle Trees, Bell, Queensland

• Main Author: Bain, Jack
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1956
• Subjects: Bell - Queensland; Australian native flora; Queensland Bottle Tree; Queensland; Lindley; Ripen; First Nations
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/6032/; https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/6032/1/Bottle%20Trees,%20Bell_Jul%201956.jpg

Brachychiton rupestris, commonly known as the narrow-leaved bottle tree or Queensland bottle tree, is a tree in the family Malvaceae[a] native to Queensland, Australia. Discovered and described by Sir Thomas Mitchell and John Lindley in 1848, it gained its name from its bulbous trunk, which can be u...