Redheads Rule!
Growing along side the Red Cedar and also thriving in lowland rainforest habitat is the Illawarra Flame tree.The flame tree is adapted to the warm, moist rainforest environment but in dry years or after frosts, it may drop its leaves.
A few months after the jettisoning of the leaves, the tree fulfills the promise of its name, producing masses of bell-shaped vivid scarlet flowers. As the name suggests, it grows in the wild from the Illawarra area of southern coastal New South Wales north into Queensland.
These trees support and feed a wide range of native animals.
