Trochocarpa laurina, Tree Heath

Trochocarpa laurina, Tree Heath

Trochocarpa laurina
“Tree Heath”

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SHRUB 4 TO 6 METRES TALLRough brown bark, attractive glossy foliage bearing small tubular white flowers in Summer and dark blue fruits. Reliable food tree for the Bower-bird & Lewin’s Honeyeater.

Suitability
Category	Small Trees up to 10m
Family	Epacridaceae
Aspect	Full Sun / Filtered Sun
Soil	Adaptable
Habitat	Dry Rainforest
Features
Bird Attracting, Rainforest Garden Plants
Localities
Annerley, Archerfield, Auchenflower, Bardon, Buranda, Burbank, Carindale, Chandler, Coopers Plains, Cubberla Creek, Enoggera Catchment, Gumdale, Hemmant, Highgate Hill, Indooroopilly, Ironside, Ithaca, Logan City, MacKenzie, Mansfield, Milton, Moorooka, Mt Gravatt East, Murarrie, Normanby, Paddington, Petrie Tce, Pine Rivers, Priestdale, Queensport, Rainworth, Ransome, Red Hill, Rocklea, Rosalie, Salisbury, Seventeen Mile Rocks, South Stradbroke Island, Sumner, Sunshine Coast district, Taringa, Tingalpa, Toowong, Torwood, Trinder Park, Wakerley, Wynnum West, Yeerongpilly, Yeronga
Fruit & Berry Food source for Birds Below
Australian King-parrot (Alisterus scapularis), Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis), Brown Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella), Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae), Common Koel (Eudynamys scolopacea), Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans), Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii), Little Lorikeet (Parvipsitta pusilla), Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus), Pacific Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps longirostris), Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina), Red-winged Parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus), Rose-crowned Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus regina), Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus), Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis), Superb Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus superbus), Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor), Topknot Pigeon (Lopholaimus antarcticus), White-headed Pigeon (Columba leucomela), Wompoo Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus magnificus), Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca)