Baobab family : BOMBACACEAE (DILLENIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Adansonia gregorii Australian Baobab Derby, W.A. courtesy of Joss & Craig Dunster

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

Durio zibethinus Durian Bundaberg, April 2008

Pachira aquatica Money Tree December 2008, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney

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

Earias huegeliana

Earias perhuegeli

Paracrama latimargo

Xanthodes congenita

Conogethes punctiferalis

Arthisma scissuralis

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 20 February 2025)