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Their leaves make good cattle fodder, and their seedpods are so high in caffeine that the explorer Leichardt used them to make coffee on his expeditions: Brachychiton populneum belongs to the same family as the cocoa bean tree.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Their leaves make good cattle fodder, and their seedpods are so high in caffeine that the explorer Leichardt used them to make coffee on his expeditions: Brachychiton populneum belongs to the same family as the cocoa bean tree.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Scattered emergents include hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii), lacebark tree (Brachychiton discolor), and crow's ash (Flindersia australis).
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Nitrogen metabolism and digestibility studies with Merino sheep given kurrajong (Brachychiton populneum), mulga (Acacia aneura) and native grass
Chapter 10 1996
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We also passed a few Currajong-trees (Brachychiton).
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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In regard too to such forms as appear to constitute genera hitherto undescribed, it greatly exceeds the much more extensive herbarium, collected by Sir Thomas Mitchell in his last expedition, in which the only two plants proposed as in this respect new, belong to genera already well established, namely, Delabechia to Brachychiton, and Linschotenia to
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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Even the kurrajong (Brachychiton discolor) couldn't resist the heat.
A Snail's Eye View 2009
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I was trying to find out what's non-nom-noming its way through my kurrajong (Brachychiton) sapling yesterday but failed to locate anything even remotely herbivorous among the foliage.
A Snail's Eye View 2008
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