Baobab family
BOMBACACEAE in Australia
including Byttneriaceae, and Durionaceae.
DILLENIIDAE

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

Adansonia gregorii
Australian Baobab
Bundaberg, December 2006

Bombax ceiba
Red Silk Cotton Tree,
Magnetic Island,
Photo: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Durio zibethinus
Durian
Bundaberg, April 2008

Grewia occidentalis
Crossberry
Concord, October 2007

Pachira aquatica
Money Tree
Royal Botanic 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

Arthisma scissuralis

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(updated 18 February 2012)