Family | Mimosaceae |
Description | Large rounded shrub to small tree |
Flowering time | Winter |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Grassy woodland and dry sclerophyll forest |
Soil types | Light textured and skeletal soils. |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | A common and important pioneer species. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Superb in flower and with very attractive silvery-grey foliage. One of the most widely grown wattles for ornamental purposes and also a major component of many amenity landscapes such as freeway plantings in south-east Queensland. . |
-other values | |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | very high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 25 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | physical |
-treatment | boiling water or scarification |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 6-27 |
-direct seeding | easy |
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