Scientific Name: Lophostemon suaveolens

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  • Pronunciation:
    low-phos-TEEM-on (or loff-OSS-te-mon) swar-vee-OH-lens
  • Common Name:
    Swamp Box, Swamp Mahogany
  • Derivation:
    Lophostemon: Gr. lophotes -crested. L. lophos - crest. L. stemon - stamen. (Flowers have crested stamens) |suaveolens: sweet-smelling
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    MYRTACEAE
  • Flowers:
    White in axillary groups of 3-8 flowers. Spring, summer
  • Fruit:
    Capsule - sepals persistent
  • Vegetation Type:
    Wallum Woodland, swampy areas or alluvial flats, occasionally further inland along streams
  • Species List:
    EdingtonDr, Cooroibah, W2, W1, Craft, Emu Mt., NLTalks2010, Weyba Nature Refuge, Eumarella Rd., Coolum High, Boreen Point Caravan Park, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP Parkedge/Alex, St. Teresa's, Noosa High School, Pacific Lutheran College, Wooroi Palm Grove, Johns, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Stratford Park, Cranks Creek, Girraween Lake Cooroibah West, Eucalypt Forest Trees, Lake Cooroibah Noosa North Shore PS TAFE Noosa Banks, NNS, Wallace Park, Heritage Park,RE 12.2.7. RE 12.3.5. RE 12.3.6. RE 12.3.11. RE 12.5.2. RE 12.9-10.4.
Cultural Notes

Dark red-brown to chocolate hardwood timber with considerable resistance to marine borers. Useful where timber touches the ground. ||Bark used to make shelters and tied canoes. ||Honey Production: extra light amber, honey source medium pollen source nil to minor.||

Identification Notes

Bark: fibrous throughout. |Branches crooked|| Adult leaves arranged in false whorls; ||Flowers: petals on the flowers; ||Petioles and twigs exude a milky liquid when cut.||

Associated Fauna

Bird attracting. Butterfly host plant: Fiery jewel. ||Bees.||

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list, Suitable plant for appropriate soil conditions (see Vegetation type)||Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.||Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||