Family | Mimosaceae |
Description | Small to medium, open, upright shrub of irregular form and pendulous branchlets |
Flowering time | Sporadic flowering at virtually any time of year |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | NSW Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyl Forests |
Soil types | Specialises in low-nutrient, skeletal or sandy soils, mostly sandstone. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Dominant or co-dominant primary colonising shrub, regenerates rapidly after fire. Exists as scattered plants in undisturbed areas. Immature seeds eaten by coackatoos and parrots. Seeds collected by ants. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Not the most elegant wattle as far as form is concerned, but the foliage is attractive and the long flowering period a bonus. The flower heads are large for an Acacia. |
-economic/functional values | Udeful for revegetation of eroded sites, quarries and mines with rocky, skeletal substrates without topsoil. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | extremely high |
-compaction | low |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | low |
-soil salinity | not known |
-salt spray | not known |
-pH | acid-neutral |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 30 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | physical-hard seed coat |
-treatment | boiling water |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 6-26 |
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