What we grow
Plant height can vary depending on the growing environment. The height categories below are guides only. Many plants can be pruned to keep them to the desired height.
Factsheets are available for most plants listed. A small number of factsheets are still in development and will be added soon.
Don’t forget to check out how council has revitalised the Gordon White Library precinct using local native plants grown at the MNEC.
Grasses and strappy plants
- Barbed Wire Grass
- Blue Flax Lily
- Common Rush
- Crinum Lily
- Grass Tree
- Java Sedge
- River Mat Rush
- Smooth Flax Lily
- Spiny Headed Mat Rush
Climbers
- Bower of Beauty
- Native Dutchman's Pipe
- Native Jasmine
- Scrambling Lily
- Snake Vine
- Wonga Vine
Ground covers and low-growing plants (under 1m)
- Beach Vitex
- Blue Trumpet
- Golden Everlasting Daisy
- Gotu Cola
- Grass Lily
- Kidney Weed
- Narrow-leaf Ginger
- Native Lobelia
- Native Snapdragon
- Native Violet
- Pointed Aneilema
- Poor Flower Tree
- Yellow Buttons
Shrubs (under 5m)
- Blue Umbrella
- Brush Hovea
- Coastal Boobialla
- Coffee Bush
- Eungella Bottlebrush
- Giant Palm Lily
- Hairy Pittosporum
- Mount Blackwood Holly
- Native Coleus
- Native Ginger
- Native Lasiandra
- Native Rosella
- Pink Lime Berry
- Pleated Ginger
- Sea Lettuce
- Silky Wattle
- Sim's Wattle
- Velvet Leaf
- Wild May
Trees (5-10m)
- Bats Wing Coral Tree
- Beach Cherry
- Coastal Banksia
- Cook's Screw Pine
- Creek Cherry
- Euodia
- Gold-dusted Bottlebrush
- Hooker's Bauhinia
- Ivory Basswood
- Native Gardenia
- Northern Blackthorn
- Northern Muttonwood
- Orange Bark
- Peanut Tree
- Red Cedar
- Sarsaparilla Tree
- Snow Wood
- Tuckeroo
- Weeping Bottlebrush
- Wheel of Fire