Australia has some of the world’s most unique and beautiful trees.

To celebrate National Science Week (August 13-21), we want to find Australia’s most loved native tree species.

Our panel of experts has come up with a longlist of 33   — beautiful, iconic, unusual, and useful — trees.

And now we need to hear from you.

Which one should be crowned Australia’s Favourite Tree?

A towering gum, gnarly banksia, ancient Wollemi pine … or a whispering sheoak?  You can choose up to 3 trees in this first round of voting, which will finish on August 11.

Then on August 12 things will get serious when we prune out the bottom 23 trees — and voting commences again on the top 10!

The winning tree will be announced on Friday, August 26.

You can choose up to three trees from this list

• Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon)
• Boab (Adansonia gregorii)
• Bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii)
• Coastal tea tree (Leptospermum laevigatum)
• Coolabah (Eucalyptus coolabah)
• Cypress pine (Callitris glaucophylla)
• Darwin woollybutt (Eucalyptus miniata)
• Deciduous beech (Nothofagus gunnii)
• Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolius)
• Ghost gum (Corymbia aparrerinja)
• Golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha)
• Grey mangrove (Avicennia marina)
• Gungurru (Eucalyptus caesia)
• Huon pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii)
• Karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor)
• Macadamia tree (Macadamia integrifolia)
• Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla)
• Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans)
• Mulga wattle (Acacia aneura)
• Old man banksia (Banksia serrata))
• Paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia)
• Quandong (Santalum acuminatum)
• Queensland bottle tree (Brachychiton rupestris)
• Queensland kauri (Agathis robusta)
• Red cabbage palm (Livistona mariae)
• Red cedar (Toona ciliata)
• Red flowering gum (Corymbia ficifolia)
• River red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis
• River sheoak (Casuarina cunninghamiana)
• Snow gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora)
• Sydney red gum (Angophora costata)
• Weeping bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis)
• Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis)

VOTE for Australia’s favourite tree