Family | Myrtaceae |
Description | medium sized tree with striking white trunk. |
Flowering time | spring-summer |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | NSW Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyl Forests and Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyl Forests |
Soil types | Specialises in low-nutrient, dry, rocky, skeletal soils on a variety of substrates including sandstone, granite, and mudstones. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Dominant or co-dominant canopy tree. Old trees frequently shed limbs and are particularly abundant in nesting hollows. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Attractive tree, the trunk is very striking, varying in colour across the year from white, to blothchy grey, salmon and pink. White only reasonably showy. Limb-shedding habit limits its use to broadacre landscapes. |
-economic/functional values | Extremely useful for revegetation of eroded sites, quarries and mines with rocky, skeletal substrates without topsoil, particularly those of sedimentary origin or coarse texture. The timber is light and brittle. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | extremely high |
-compaction | low |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | -8 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 123 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 5-28 |
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