Anchor Plant
WBG Tree ID: Anchor Plant
Common name: Anchor Plant
Botanic name: Colletia paradoxa
Other names: Jet Plane Plant
Similar trees in the WBG
Notes:
This unusual plant, Colletia Paradoxa with its flattened branches and sharp spines is a native of Brazil and Uruguay. It is rarely planted in gardens.
There is a specimen in the Geelong Botanic Gardens, which suggests that this plant may have been part of Mueller's experiment with acclimatization.
It grows in the bed to the east of the cannon and has clusters of sweet smelling white flowers in Autumn.
View from the path with Google Street View
Move the pegman (
) on the map to the path (a blue line will appear) by the tree.