Brachychiton viscidulus

(W. Fitzg.) Guymer

Sticky kurrajong

Malvaceae Edible: Seeds 63 iNaturalist observations

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Summary

Brachychiton viscidulus is a plant in the Malvaceae family, native to Western Australia. It was first described by William Vincent Fitzgerald in 1906 as Sterculia viscidula, but was transferred to the Brachychiton genus in 1989 by Gordon P. Guymer to become Brachychiton viscidulus. B. viscidulus is a tree with pink-red to orange flowers which grows to heights of 2m to 8m, which flowers from April to January. It grows on clays, on skeletal soils over many different types of rocks, and is found on rocky slopes, gorges scarps.

Description

A shrub or small tree. It grows 2-8 m tall. The flowers are pink to red or orange.

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Edible Uses

The seeds are edible.

Distribution

A tropical plant. It grows in northern Western Australia in the Kimberleys. It grows on poor soils over sandstone or limestone.

Where It Grows

Australia*,

Production

Plants flower April to December.

Notes

Also put in the family Sterculiaceae.

Synonyms

Sterculia viscidula W. Fitzg.

References (3)

Paczkowska G. & Chapman, A. R., 2000, The Western Australian Flora. West Australian herbarium. p 540
Smith, Nicholas et al. 1993, Ngarinyman Ethnobotany: Aboriginal Plant Use from the Victoria River Area Northern Australia. Northern Territory Botanical Bulletin No 16. Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory. p 12.
Vigilante, T., et al, 2013, Island country: Aboriginal connections, values and knowledge of the Western Kimberley islands in the context of an island biological survey. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 145-182