Family | Casuarinaceae |
Description | Small to medium upright shrub |
Flowering time | Autumn-Winter |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Heath, Dry Sclerophyll Forest and sometimes Woodland. |
Soil types | Low-nutrient sandy or dry, rocky, skeletal soils desrived from sandstone. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Sometimes dominant in the understorey. Important food plant for the endangered Glossy Black Cockatoo. |
-amenity/ornamental values | May attract cockatoos to parks and gardens. A fairly dull looking shrub but the male plants are attractive in a rusty kind of way when in flower. |
-economic/functional values | Very useful plant for revegetation of eroded sites, quarries and mines with rocky, skeletal substrates without topsoil. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | low |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | -10 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 1000 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known but usually fast and reliable germination |
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