Plant Details

Scientific Name: Tabernaemontana pandacaqui (was Ervatamia angustisepala)
  • Pronunciation: tab-er-nay-mon-TARN-ah pan-dah-CACK-qwee
  • Common Name: Banana Bush
  • Type: Shrub
  • Family: APOCYNACEAE
  • Size: 3 metres
  • Flowers: White, windmill - like. Perfumed.
  • Fruit: Devaricate follicle
  • Vegetation Type: Wet Eucalypt Forest, along creekbanks, edges of Rainforest.
  • Species List: Kennilworth Fig Tree Walk, Cooroy Mill Site, BSDoonan, Cooloothin Corner, Batianoff 87, Upper Yandina Creek, Kin Kin Arboretum, Stratford Park Heritage Park

Identification Notes

Milky Sap.

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list

Successfully propagated by Coolum Community Native Nursery
Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery

  • Tabernaemontana pandacaqui (was Ervatamia angustisepala)
  • Tabernaemontana pandacaqui (was Ervatamia angustisepala)
  • Tabernaemontana pandacaqui (was Ervatamia angustisepala)
  • Tabernaemontana pandacaqui (was Ervatamia angustisepala)
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