Balsam family : BALSAMINACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia
including Hydroceraceae and Impatientaceae

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Impatiens balsamina Balsam Hurlstone Park, January 2008

Impatiens x hawkeri New Guinea Impatiens Photo: courtesy of Kell Nielsen Gold Coast, April 2007

Impatiens walleriana Busy Lizzie Sydney, August 2006

Plants in BALSAMINACEAE are the foodplants of the caterpillars of a number of Australian Moth species, including:

Theretra oldenlandiae	Hippotion celerio	Hippotion scrofa	Theretra latreillii

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 5 August 2013, 11 July 2019)