bottle tree

noun

any of several trees of the genus Brachychiton, native to Australia, characterized by a bottle-shaped swelling of the trunk, as B. rupestris narrow-leaved bottle tree or B. australis broad-leaved bottle tree.

bottle tree

any of several Australian sterculiaceous trees of the genus Sterculia (or Brachychiton ) that have a bottle-shaped swollen trunk
See baobab
another name for baobab

First recorded in 1840–50

The gullies were full of bush-trees, amongst which the Bottle-tree, and the Corypha-palm were frequent.

It was on Mount Abundance that the first bottle-tree was discovered.

Here we first saw the Australian bottle-tree, which is native only to these colonies.

It is in his description of this region in his journal that we first find an allusion to the bottle tree.

Sometimes they came upon the curiously-shaped bottle tree, which greatly resembles a lemonade bottle placed in the ground.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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