Family | Mimosaceae |
Description | Small-medium upright shrub |
Flowering time | on and off throughout the year, including summer and autumn |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Dry sclerophyll forest and grassy woodlands. |
Soil types | A range of soil types including sands and clays, and ranging from skeletal soils to alluvium. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Understory component and primary coloniser. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Very attractive shrub, the phyllodes are a bright fresh green giving the plant a lush appearance that belies its high drought tolerance. Flowers are a pleasant lemon-yellow and appear over an extensive period. |
-economic/functional values | Useful and easy to establish primary coloniser. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average |
-shade | average |
-soil salinity | not known |
-salt spray | not known but probably high |
-pH | 5-7 |
-minimum temperature | -10 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 225 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | physical |
-treatment | boiling water |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 7-30 |
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