Hello Again, Bottle Tree!

You’ve met a Queensland Bottle Tree here before. That was a few years ago when I came across one on Stanford’s campus. Here are a couple more of those trees with bottle-shaped trunks. I found these bottle trees in the San Diego Zoo in Southern California.

These trees that seem to be thriving in North America, however, are native to the continent of Australia, or to ‘Queensland’ to be more precise. This variety of the Bottle Tree, which is belongs to the dry inland grasslands of Queensland is a tough tree, one that can survive with a less amount of water and in different kinds of soils and climatic conditions, too.

Apparently, it can store water in its trunk so the more it ages or the more water it gets, the broader its body can be. Another thing that’s interesting about this tree is its leaf. I just learnt that the leaves of a young Queensland bottle tree is long and thin, and that of a mature tree, shorter and broader.

By the way, the botanical name of this tree with a bulbous trunk is Brachychiton rupestris.

NAME DERIVATION: Brachychiton – from Greek, brachys, short and chiton, a tunic, a reference to the coating on the seed; rupestris – refers to growing among rocks.

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The bottle trees in San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA —

Have you see a bottle tree yet?
If you’re in the San Francisco area, you know you can see it Stanford and if you are in Southern California, there are these trees in the San Diego Zoo.
I hear there’s also one in Balboa Park. (I’m going to look for it when I’m there, next.)

Say Hello to the Bottle Tree in Stanford University
See more trees on TftT

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