Stenocarpus sinuatus.. the Queensland Firewheel (or Wheel of Fire) Tree apparently also grows in California
but mine grows on the edge of the rose garden, close to a huge trellis that is covered
in the single rose Laevigata or Cherokee. This tree is quite slow growing and because
of the closeness of the trellis has a clematis attaching itself through the top of the tree
giving some colour before the tree does its thing with these red strange looking whorls.
This tree is related to the popular macadamia.