The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Stenocarpus sinuatus
Also called Queensland Fire Wheel Tree, Fire Wheel Tree, Firetree, Tulip Flower, Tuliptree, Wheel Of Fire, Wheel Of Fire Tree
In Singapore: Fire-wheel Tree, 火轮木 (Grown in Singapore)
Stenocarpus sinuatus is a medium to large Australian rainforest tree in the Protea family, grown for its striking red umbel flowers arranged in a wheel shape. It is best suited to warm, frost-free climates, and is also grown as an ornamental tree in other parts of the world.
Stenocarpus sinuatus, known as the firewheel tree, is an Australian rainforest tree in the family Proteaceae. The range of natural distribution is in various rainforest types from the Nambucca River (30° S) in New South Wales to the Atherton Tableland (17° S) in tropical Queensland. Stenocarpus sinuatus is widely planted as an ornamental tree in other parts of Australia and in different parts of the world.
Other common names include the white beefwood, Queensland firewheel tree, tulip flower, white oak and white silky oak.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stenocarpus sinuatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
