Scientific Name: Lophostemon confertus

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  • Pronunciation:
    loff-oss-TEEM-on (or loff-OSS-te-mon) con-FER-tus
  • Common Name:
    Brush Box
  • Derivation:
    Lophostemon: L. lophos - crest, L. stemon - stamen ||confertus: L. conferta - brought together, crowded (refers to leaf arrangement)
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    MYRTACEAE
  • Flowers:
    spring, summer
  • Fruit:
    Bell-shaped capsule -sepals deciduous in fruit
  • Vegetation Type:
    Wet Eucalypt Forest - widespread,
  • Species List:
    SBHS, Arthur Harrold NR,FI Podberscek, Emu Mt., Cooroibah Airstrip, Coolum High, Mooloolaba TAFE, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Sunshine Beach Primary, Cooroy Primary School, NNP service road, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Cooloothin Corner, Banana, Old Tewantin, Upper Mt. Tinbeerwah, Tewantin Forest Gyndier, Fraser Island, Johns, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Cranks Creek, NNP Viewland/Brunjes, Upper Yandina Creek, Boreen Point, Eucalypt Forest Trees,TAFE, Girraween, NNP Palm Grove, Noosa Banks, Marcus Dunes, BHNR, Dandaloo, Noosa River NP, NNS Fern Track, Kin Kin Arboretum,, Stratford Park, Heritage Park,, RE 12.2.5. RE 12.3.2. RE 12.5.6. RE 12.8.9. RE12.8.20. RE 12.9-10.l. RE 12.9-10.17. RE 12.11.1. RE 12.11.2. RE 12.11.3. RE 12.11.5. RE 12.12.1. RE 12.12.2a. RE 12.12.15.
Cultural Notes

Yields good quality pale honey that candies easily. Favourite tree for bee-keepers || Excellent hardwood reasonably resisitant to termites and marine borers|| Honey Production: extra white to light amber, honey source medium pollen source minor.||

Identification Notes

Trunk: half box barked upper trunk pink||Found: around edges of rainforest and in most types of eucalypt forests ||Lophostemons: adult leaves arranged in false whorls; petals on the flowers; the upper bark is smooth and pink-fawn in colour; petioles and twigs exude a milky liquid when cut.||

Associated Fauna

Butterfly host plant: Common red-eye. Secondary koala habitat tree.||

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species List. Suitable plant for appropriate soil conditions (see Vegetation type). ||Successfully propogated by Noosa & District Landcare. ||Moist well-drained soils. ||Widely used in street-scaping.||Propagation is from seed, ripening November-January, which germinates easily. It will tolerate adverse soil conditions, exposure and frost, and grows quickly, developing a bushy crown from an early age.||Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.||Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||