Definition of brachychiton Brachychiton

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What does brachychiton mean?

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brachychiton - Australian trees (usually with swollen trunks)
		genus Brachychiton
		dilleniid dicot genus genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
		family sterculiaceae, sterculia family, sterculiaceae a large family of plants of order Malvales

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"Brachychiton" (Kurrajong, Bottletree) is a genus of 31 species of trees and large shrubs. They grow naturally in Australia and New Guinea. Fossils from New South Wales and New Zealand are believed to be 50 million years old. The name "Brachychiton" is comes from the Greek "brachys", meaning "short", and "chiton", meaning "tunic". This refers to its loose seed coverings.

They grow to 4–30m tall. All species have separate male and female flowers on the same plant. The female flowers have five separate carpels that can each form a woody fruit that has several seeds.