1. North Australian tree having white flowers and broad leaves
   "The broad-leaved bottletree provided welcome shade in the outback";
   - flame tree, Brachychiton australis

1. An Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
   "The bottle tree gets its name from its distinctive swollen trunk";
   - bottle-tree

1. Large tree of Queensland having cream-coloured flowers blotched with red inside; sometimes placed in genus Sterculia
   "The narrow-leaved bottletree's distinctive flowers attracted native bees"; "The Queensland bottletree's distinctive flowers attracted native bees";
   - Queensland bottletree, Brachychiton rupestris, Sterculia rupestris

Derived forms: bottle trees, bottle-trees

Type of: tree

Part of: Brachychiton, genus Brachychiton

Encyclopedia: Bottle tree