Family | Mimosaceae |
Description | Tall erect shrub to small tree. Flowers cream. |
Flowering time | Summer |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Grassy woodland, dry sclerophyll forest as well as wet sclerophyll forest near the coast. |
Soil types | Usually on lighetr soils. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Imortant understory component. Seeds eaten by birds. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Fast growing and relaible tall screening plant. Attractive but not spectacular in flower. Flowers in summer when few other natives are in bloom. |
-economic/functional values | Very useful revegetation species, tolerates poor substrates and extremely easy to establish via direct seeding. The wood is attractive and millable on large specimens. Fallen pods relished by stock. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | low |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | low |
-soil salinity | not known |
-salt spray | not known |
-pH | 5-7 |
-minimum temperature | -10 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 183 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | physical |
-treatment | boiling water |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 10-26 |
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