Family | Mimosaceae |
Description | Tall upright shrub to small tree. extremely fast growing. |
Flowering time | Summer-Late Winter |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Wet Sclerophyll Forests of various kinds on the coast and adjacent ranges, often riparian. |
Soil types | Variety of substrates including sands and alluvium. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Important primary coloniser and stabilser of sites disturbed by flooding. Nitrogen fixer. immature seeds eaten by parrots and cockatoos. Supports large insect populations important to insect eating birds such as wrens. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Attractive lush foliage. White flowers are sweetly scented. Flowers at a time of year when few wattles flower. |
-economic/functional values | Extremely useful for revegetation in high rainfall areas. Possible tolerance of compaction and waterlogging make it valuable for roadside revegetation. Extremely rapid growth rate makes it potential biomass crop. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | low |
-compaction | possibly high |
-waterlogging | possibly high |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 101 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | hard seed coat |
-treatment | boiling water |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 5-21 |
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