Family | Mimosaceae |
Description | Small-medium rounded shrub |
Flowering time | Late winter-spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Sclerophyll communities. |
Soil types | Generally on sandy or skeletal soils. |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | Extremely tolerant of dry, rocky sites and subsoil conditions, therefore useful for direct seeding on hostile sites such as mining and roadside revegetation projects. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Under-utilised compared to some better known acacias. Very showy in flower and relatively long-lived compared to many acacias. The silvery-hairy seed pods are very attractive. Compact form and tolerates pruning. |
-other values | Nitrogen fixer. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | extremely high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | average |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 30 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | physical |
-treatment | boiling water or scarification |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known |
-direct seeding | easy |
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