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Broad-Leaved Bottle Tree
Brachychiton australis
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 45Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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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.
Broad-Leaved Bottle Tree - Brachychiton australis
The broad-leaved bottle tree is the northern relative of the Queensland bottle tree, trading the massive swollen trunk for something slimmer and faster, topped with large deeply lobed leaves that look almost like a maple. Brachychiton australis drops those leaves in late winter and flowers on bare wood, hanging clusters of cream bells with dark speckled throats. It is a dry country tree, so it survives on rainfall where most feature trees will not.
Why Broad-Leaved Bottle Tree
Swollen Trunk: The base thickens into the characteristic bottle shape with age, giving real sculptural presence.
Bold Lobed Foliage: Large deeply cut leaves throw a coarse, tropical texture unlike anything else that tolerates drought this well.
Bare Wood Flowering: Cream bells with speckled throats hang from leafless branches in late winter and spring.
Water Storage: The trunk holds reserves, carrying the tree through long dry seasons unaided.
Fast Early Growth: It puts on height quickly while young, then slows as the trunk fills out.
Ideal Applications
Acreage Feature: A single sculptural tree in a large garden or paddock setting.
Dry Tropical Streetscapes: Suited to inland and northern towns where water is scarce.
Water Wise Shade: Seasonal shade in summer with winter sun let through when bare.
Courtyard Sculpture: Used while young against a wall, where the trunk and leaf shape are seen close up.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 5 to 6m in an informal row
Spacing (feature/avenue): 8 to 10m
Best Planting Season: Spring into early summer, or the start of the wet season in the north
Soil & Drainage: Free draining sandy or gravelly soils, including shallow rocky ground. Waterlogging is the main cause of failure.
Establishment Care: Water fortnightly through the first two summers only, then leave it to rainfall in most districts. Protect young trees from frost for the first few winters and keep heavy mulch off the trunk, which stays soft while young.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 15m
Width: 4 to 8m
Growth Rate: Fast when young, slowing with age
Foliage: Deciduous, dropping its leaves in the dry season before flowering
Light: Full sun
Native to: Dry rainforest and open forest of Queensland and the Northern Territory
Flower Colour: Cream to greenish white with a speckled brown throat
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.







