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