Family | Mimosaceae |
Description | Medium to large shrub, overall rounded in shape but throws out individual branches creating a rather irregular form. |
Flowering time | Late winter-spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Sclerophyll and woodland communities generally at higher altitudes. |
Soil types | Variable |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | Fast growing primary coloniser |
-amenity/ornamental values | Attractive flowers and foliage. Its semi-weeping form is also quite attractive if a little ungainly. |
-other values | Nitrogen fixer. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | average |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average |
-shade | average |
-minimum temperature | -8 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 57 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | physical |
-treatment | boiling water or scarification |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 10-26 |
-direct seeding | easy |
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