| Family | Casuarinaceae |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Seed & Germination Details | |
| Average no. Seeds per Gram | 1000 |
| 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 |