Family | Myrtaceae |
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Description | medium sized tree with striking white trunk. |
Flowering Time | spring-summer |
Distribution & Botanical Details | Click Here |
Florabank Profile | |
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 | |
Revegetation / 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. |
Other 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. |
Tolerances | |
Water Deficit | extremely high |
Compaction | low |
Waterlogging | low |
Shade | low |
Minimum Temperature | -8 degrees |
Average no. Seeds per Gram | 123 |
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Viability Period | long |
Dormancy | none |
Treatment | none |
Days From First to Last Germination at 25 Degrees | 5-28 |
Direct Seeding |