Queensland bottle tree

Brachychiton Rupestris (Queensland Bottle Tree) is a picturesque tree with heavily swollen trunk resembling rounded bottle. Narrow & straight in youth the trunk becomes bottle shaped with age as it stores water . The formation of the bottle shaped is not visible untill the tree is 5 to 8 years old. The Leaves are small narrow-dissected palmate on young specimen’s broadening and turning simple on maturing. Native to Australia this tree is striking and adaptable almost in any condition and any types of soil mixture.