Family | Casuarinaceae |
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Description | Small to medium upright shrub |
Flowering Time | Autumn-Winter |
Distribution & Botanical Details | Click Here |
Florabank Profile | |
Vegetation Communities | Heath, Dry Sclerophyll Forest and sometimes Woodland. |
Soil Types | Low-nutrient sandy or dry, rocky, skeletal soils desrived from sandstone. |
Values / Uses | |
Revegetation / Habitat Values | Sometimes dominant in the understorey. Important food plant for the endangered Glossy Black Cockatoo. |
Amenity / Ornamental Values | May attract cockatoos to parks and gardens. A fairly dull looking shrub but the male plants are attractive in a rusty kind of way when in flower. |
Other Values | Very useful plant for revegetation of eroded sites, quarries and mines with rocky, skeletal substrates without topsoil. |
Tolerances | |
Water Deficit | high |
Compaction | low |
Waterlogging | low |
Shade | low |
Minimum Temperature | -10 degrees |
Average no. Seeds per Gram | 1000 |
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Viability Period | long |
Dormancy | none |
Treatment | none |
Days From First to Last Germination at 25 Degrees | not known but usually fast and reliable germination |
Direct Seeding |