Which trees should I plant for Flying-foxes?
Flying foxes eat pollen and nectar from a range of native flowering trees, and fruit from native rainforest trees.
See Jerry Coleby-Williams 'Favourite Flying-Fox Food Trees".
Examples of Flowering Trees that Flying-foxes enjoy:
Flowering Trees
- Black Bean
- Blakely's Red Gum
- Broad-leaved Ironbark
- Crimson Bottlebrush
- New England Blackbutt
- Narrow-leaved Red Ironbark
- Rough-barked Apple
- Smooth-barked Apple
- White Bottlebrush
- White Mahogany
- White Box
- Yellow Bloodwood
- Hill Gum
- Flooded Gum
- Sliver-leaved Ironbark
- Yellow Box
- Blackbutt
- Grey Box
- Grey Ironbark
- Ghost Gum
- Parramatta Gum
- Small-fruited Grey Gum
- Large-fruited Grey Gum
- Southern Scribbly Gum
- Red Mahogany
- Swamp Mahogany
- Sydney Blue Gum
- Sydney Red Gum
- Forest Red Gum
- Broad-leaved White Mahogany
- Brush Box
- Swamp Turpentine
- Broad-leaved Tea Tree
- Turpentine
- Coast Banksia
- Long-fruited Bloodwood
- Brown Bloodwood
- Carbeen
- Cadaga
- Firewheel Tree
- Lemon-scented Gum
- Red Flowering Gum
- Large-leaved Spotted Gum
- Spotted Gum
- Northern Spotted Gum
- Pink Bloodwood
- Red Stringybark
- Darwin Stringybark
- Maiden's Gum
- Flooded Gum
- Sugar Gum
- Orange Gum
- Manna Gum
- Gympie Messmate
- Swamp Messmate
- Darwin Woollybutt
- Sydney Peppermint
- Narrow-leaved Black Peppermint
- Parramatta Red Gum
- Needlebark
- Bangalay
- Silky Oak
- Yate
- Bushy Yate
Examples of Rainforest trees that Flying-foxes enjoy:
Rainforest Trees
- Cabbage Palm
- Bangalow Palm
- Crabapple
- Davidson's Plum
- Mytle Ebony
- Koda
- Hard Quandong
- Blueberry Ash
- Featherwood
- White Kamala
- Brown Beech
- White Cedar
- Native Mulberry
- Creek Sandpaper Fig
- Sandpaper Fig
- Moreton Bay Fig
- Small-fruited Fig
- Small-leaved Fig
- Rusty (Port Jackson) Fig
- Deciduous Fig
- White Fig
- Strangler Fig
- Broad-leaved Lilly Pilly
- Red Apple
- Lilly Pilly
- Malletwood
- Brush Cherry
- Sour Cherry
- Purple Cherry
- Riberry
- Blue Lilly Pilly
- Magenta Lilly Pilly
- Red Ash
- Native Tamarind
- Blunt-leaved Steelwood
- Black Apple
- Giant Stinging Tree
- Shining-leaf Stinging Tree