plants
Maria Island plants
Maria Island National Park
Native vegetation
Eucalypts (Eucalyptus)
tasmanian blue gum (E. globulus)
browntop stringybark (E. obliqua)
white peppermint (E. pulchella)
black peppermint (E. amygdalina)
swamp gum (E. ovata)
urn gum (E. urnigera)
heartleaf silver gum (E. cordata)
gumtopped stringybark (E. delegatensis)
The understorey of the western half of
the island includes:
prickly box (Bursaria spinosa)
drooping sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata)
bulloak (Allocasuarina littoralis)
silver banksia (Banksia marginata)
silver wattle (Acacia dealbata)
black wattle (Acacia mearnsii)
native cherry (Exocarpos cupressiformis)
The creeks and damper areas include:
rough dogwood (Pomaderris apetala)
prickly moses (Acacia verticillata)
blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon)
tasmanian blanketleaf (Bedfordia salicina)
musk daisybush (Olearia argophylla)
shrubby daisybush (Olearia lirata)
stinkwood (Zieria arborescens)
cheesewood (Pittosporum bicolor)
currajong (Asterotrichion discolor)
soft treefern (Dicksonia antarctica)
rough treefern (Cyathea australis)
The higher slopes and spurs
oyster bay pine (Callitris rhomboidea)
dragon candleheath (Richea dracophylla)
white-edge heath (Epacris marginata)
rockfield daisybush (Olearia archeri)
sassafras (Atherosperma moschatum)
celerytop pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius)
mountain pepper (Tasmannia lanceolata)
Photo: Joe Shemesh
christmas bush (Prostanthera lasianthos)
handsome cheeseberry (Cyathodes glauca)
native currant (Coprosma quadrifida)
pinkwood (Beyeria viscosa)
roundleaf riceflower (Pimelea nivea)
copperleaf snowberry (Gaultheria hispida)
mountain needlebush (Hakea lissosperma)
Dry heaths near Chinamans Bay:
common heath (Epacris impressa)
white beardheath (Leucopogon collinus)
twiggy beardheath (Leucopogon virgatus)
pink beardheath (Leucopogon ericoides)
manuka (Leptospermum scoparium)
smoky teatree (Leptospermum glaucescens)
Depar tment of Environment, Par ks, Her itage and the Ar ts
Wet heaths include:
prickly bottlebrush (Callistemon viridiflorus)
pink swampheath (Sprengelia incarnata)
common heath (Epacris impressa)
slender heath (Epacris lanuginosa)
slender honey-myrtle (Melaleuca gibbosa)
swamp honey-myrtle (Melaleuca squamea)
pouched coralfern (Gleichenia dicarpa)
forked combfern (Schizaea bifida)
clubmoss (Lycopodium sp.)
Heaths on granite headlands of the east
coast include:
necklace sheoak (Allocasuarina monilifera)
fringe-myrtle (Calytrix tetragona)
white kunzea (Kunzea ambigua)
Dune areas and beaches on the west
coast include:
Introduced to stabilise sand dunes:
marram grass (Ammophila arenaria)
Native grasses:
coast fescue (Austrofestuca littoralis)
spinifex (Spinifex sericeus)
Succulents:
pink pigface (Carpobrotus rossii)
roundleaf pigface (Disphyma crassifolium)
Shrubs:
coast wattle (Acacia longifolia ssp. sophorae)
common boobialla (Myoporum insulare)
coast beardheath (Leucopogon parviflorus)
Internet: www.parks.tas.gov.au
Depa r t me n t o f E nv i r o n m e n t , Pa r k s , H e r ita g e a nd the Ar ts
February 2008 © State of Tasmania