One Australian Deciduous species

[Bretts]

Tangle foot If my favourite tree is the Carpinus what should I change my user name too
I first noticed Nothofagus cunninghamii apperently evergreen but are they any easier as bonsai or in the heat?

[Noel Kemp]

I agree with Tanglefoot (below) especially re temperatures. I have been unsuccessful in growing them (also in Hobart but) at sea level. I knew someone who did their PhD on (amongst other plants) *Nothofagus* spp. and she thought it was the lack of cold spell over winter that might have - slowly - killed my *N gunnii*. She admitted that this was opinion and not proven fact. I can grow *N. cunninghamii* here successfully.

[Steven]

Thanks for posting Noel and welcome to AusBonsai.
You seem to have a lot of experience with our natives and I look forwards to reading your posts.
Regards,
Steven

[Roger]

As I was doing some searches for the 'summary project' on ABc, I came across this forum. As I quickly scanned it, it seemed to me that there was little mention of the several species of deciduous trees in northern Australia. The iconic one is the boab, but there are many more. there's even at least one deciduous eucalypt. Species up there respond to the 'dry' season by reducing or completely losing their leaves until the rains come again. Down south it can be day length or temperature that triggers total leaf fall.

If anyone is interested, then a check of what's going on up north would be most rewarding!
Roger

[Hornet]

There are many decidious natives, some ficus, flame tree's, bottle tree's, boab's, many species from the top end are decidious to cope with the dry season. Then there are a few hundred decidious orchids, aroids, and carvivorous plants

[Scott Roxburgh]

Ficus are deciduous in my backyard, for some reason they don't get new leaves in spring

[Roger]

Scott
I have a Ficus virens, sourced from the Kimberley. It is more or less deciduous each winter, then doesn't start leafing anew until about now, even though it is kept in the house all year round (first buds are just showing this week). It really likes the hot weather and only just tolerates the Canberra cold.

[Jamie]

hi guys

I know this is a little older but I do beleive there is a species of birch (or beech) one of the two, that is a tropical but does lose its leaves. pretty sure it was tropical birch. but was considered deciduous. it looked just like a normal birch in the leaf shape, and trunk characteristics but did well in tropical and sub tropical conditions. more than likely some form of hybridised tree. another one my grandmother in law took from me haha. I gotta raid her garden one day. there is some stuff there that she has that i could use and it all comes back around