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Nursery Direct
Cassowary Pine
Barringtonia calyptrata
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Cassowary Pine - Barringtonia calyptrata
Despite the common name there is nothing coniferous about Barringtonia calyptrata, a wet tropical rainforest tree of Cape York and the far north Queensland coast. Its appeal is architectural: very large paddle shaped leaves clustered in rosettes at the branch tips, and long pendulous flower chains that open after dark and carpet the ground with spent stamens by morning. It is chosen where a garden needs one big, unmistakably tropical structure rather than a fine textured filler.
Why Cassowary Pine
Leaf Scale: Individual leaves can run 20 to 40cm long and sit in bold whorls, giving the coarse texture that reads as rainforest.
Night Flowering: Hanging racemes open in the evening with white petals and a brush of cream to pink stamens, attracting bats and moths.
Wildlife Value: The four angled green fruit is taken by cassowaries and larger rainforest birds, which is where the name comes from.
Humidity Suited: It is built for the wet tropics and handles high rainfall and heavy summer humidity without stress.
Clean Trunk: Growth is upright with a fairly straight bole, so it can be underplanted rather than dominating at ground level.
Ideal Applications
Tropical feature tree: Placed as a single specimen in lawn or garden bed where the leaf whorls can be seen from a distance.
Resort and poolside planting: Delivers instant tropical character in far north gardens, set back far enough that leaf drop misses the water.
Rainforest canopy planting: Works as an upper layer over gingers, cordylines and licuala palms.
Wildlife corridor work: Valuable in far north revegetation where cassowary food trees are being reinstated.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 4 to 5m centres, though it is not a natural hedging subject
Spacing (feature/avenue): 7 to 10m centres
Best Planting Season: Start of the wet season, roughly November to March in the tropics
Soil & Drainage: Deep, moist, humus rich soil with reliable drainage; it dislikes dry, shallow or compacted ground
Establishment Care: Keep the root zone consistently moist through the first two dry seasons, watering deeply two to three times a week rather than lightly each day. Mulch broadly to 100mm to hold soil moisture and keep the surface roots cool.
Plant Details
Height: 10 to 20m
Width: 5 to 9m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast in the tropics
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to part shade
Native to: Rainforest of far north Queensland and Cape York, extending to New Guinea
Flower Colour: White with cream to pink stamens
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







