Family | Mimosaceae |
Description | Medium sized upright shrub |
Flowering time | Late winter-early spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Dry schlerophyll forests, woodlands, heath. |
Soil types | Wide range but most common on sandstones and granites. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Dominant or co-dominant primary colonising shrub, regenerates rapidly after fire. Nitrogen fixer. Exists as scattered plants in undisturbed areas. Immature seeds eaten by coackatoos and parrots. Seeds collected by ants. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Spectacular in flower. Foliage attractive. Recovers well from severe pruning. |
-economic/functional values | Extremely useful for revegetation on light soils and of eroded sites, quarries and mines with rocky, skeletal substrates without topsoil. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | extremely high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average to low |
-shade | low |
-soil salinity | not known |
-salt spray | not known |
-pH | 5-7 |
-minimum temperature | -8 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 45 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | physical-hard seed coat |
-treatment | none |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 4-17 |
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