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Schedule 6 Cut-flowers protected plants

Under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

This list includes changes to species groups in the Cut Flower Sustainable Management Plan 2023–27, Appendix A. These changes will be incorporated into Schedule 6 of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 in due course.

Threatened species are listed within Schedule 1 of the Biodiversity Conservation Act. It is recognised that some individually listed threatened species are traded in the native plant industry and may appear as both threatened and protected plants. Picking and harvesting threatened plant species from the wild is not permitted under a wild harvest or approved harvest licence. Threatened species will only be available to the whole plant and cut-flower industry as grower-only products and regulated under a grower licence.

Part 1: Cut-flowers

Group 1

Wild harvester or grower licence picking from state forest permitted with forest products licence.

Bangalow palm (foliage only)

Scientific nameCommon name(s)
Adiantum spp.Maidenhair fern
Archontophoenix cunninghamianaBangalow palm (foliage only)
Baeckea linifoliaWeeping baeckea
Banksia spinulosaHairpin banksia
Cassinia aureonitensYellow cassinia
Caustis spp., native to NSWCurly sedges, old man’s whiskers
Cordyline strictaNarrow-leaved palm lily
Crowea exalataCrowea
Crowea salignaCrowea
Davallia solida var. pyxidataHare’s foot fern
Dodonaea lobulataLobed-leaved hop bush
Eriostemon spp. native to NSW 
Gahnia sieberiana Red-fruited saw sedge
Isopogon spp., native to NSWDrumsticks, cone bushes
Kunzea ambiguaTick bush
Kunzea capitataPink kunzea
Leptospermum lanigerumWoolly tea-tree
Leptospermum rotundifoliumRound-leaf tea-tree
Livistona australis (foliage only)Cabbage tree palm, fan palm
Lomatia silaifoliaCrinkle bush
Persoonia spp., native to NSW (P. pinifolia)Geebungs
Petrophile spp., native to NSWConesticks
Phebalium squamulosumScaly phebalium
Philotheca spp., native to NSWPhilotheca
Ptilotus exaltatusTall mulla mulla
Ptilotus obovatusSmoke bush, cotton bush
Pycnosorus spp., native to NSWBilly-buttons
Restio tetraphyllusTassel-rush
Sannantha angusta 
Sannantha collina 
Sannantha crassa 
Sannantha pluriflora 
Sannantha similus 
Sprengelia incarnataPink swamp heath
Sticherus flabellatusShiny fan-fern, umbrella fern
Swainsona formosaSturt’s desert pea
Tmesipteris spp., native to NSWFerns
Xanthorrhoea spp. (foliage only)Grass trees
Xylomelum spp., native to NSWWoody pear
Zamiaceae, native to NSWCycads

Group 2

Wild harvester or grower licence picking from state forest permitted with forest products licence.

Scientific nameCommon name(s)
Boronia spp., native to NSWBoronias
Doryanthes excelsa (foliage only)Giant lilies
Eriostemon australasiusWax flower
Lycopodium spp., native to NSWMountain moss
Persoonia pinifoliaPine-leaved geebung
Philotheca obovalisWax flower

Group 3

Wild harvester (National Parks and Wildlife Services tags required) or grower licence

Scientific nameCommon name(s)
Actinotus spp., native to NSW (except A. minor)Flannel flower
Blandfordia spp.Christmas bells
Doryanthes excelsa (flowers only)Giant lily
Xanthorrhoea spp. (flowers only)Grass tree

Group 4

Grower licence only

Scientific nameCommon name(s)
Boronia deaneiDean’s boronia
Boronia umbellataBoronia
Craspedia spp., native to NSWBilly buttons
Dicranopteris linearis 
Doryanthes palmeriSpear lily
Grevillea longifoliaFern-leaf grevillea
Isopogon fletcheri 
Leptospermum spectabile 
Macrozamia johnsoniiCycad
Macrozamia flexuosaCycad
Persoonia spp.Geebung
Phebalium bifidum 
Phebalium glandulosum spp. eglandulosum 
Philotheca ericifolia 
Philotheca obovatifoliaNative daphne, long-leaf wax flower
Telopea spp., native to NSWWaratah

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