Sterculia appendiculata

One of the most characteristic and tallest trees of this vegetation type, it is a protected species and in natural habitat many of these large, yellow-barked trees have been left standing amid cultivation and grazing land, thus indicating how widespread the Sterculia forests used to be.

Similar plants:

• Brachychiton australis, Sterculia trichosiphon (Broad Leaved Bottletree)
• Firmiana colorata, Sterculia colorata (Colored Sterculia, Bonfire tree, Scarlet Sterculia, Iwil-iwil, Indian Almond)
• Firmiana simplex, Sterculia platanifolia (Chinese Parasol Tree)
• Pterygota alata, Sterculia alata (Buddha Coconut )
• Sterculia apetala, Helicteres apetala, Sterculia carthaginensis, Sterculia chicha (Bellota, Panama Tree)
• Sterculia ceramica (Lanyu Sterculia)
• Sterculia coccinea, Sterculia lanceolata var. coccinea, Sterculia hamiltonii (Shrub Sterculia, Kelumpang)
• Sterculia foetida (Peon, Indian Almond, Hazel Sterculia, Java Olive, Skunk Tree)
• Sterculia lanceifolia, Sterculia roxburghii (Lanceleaf Sterculia)
• Sterculia lanceolata, Helicteres undulata, Sterculia balansae (Lanceleaf Sterculia)