Family | Fabaceae |
Description | Upright, open shrub to 2m. Branches long and slender, becoming pendulous in older plants. |
Flowering time | Early spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Dry sclerophyll forest |
Soil types/ecological niche | Variety of soils from sands to clay. Plants are long lived, the above-ground parts disappearing during drought but resprouting from the base when moist conditions return. Also a primary coloniser of disturbed sites. Favours relatively moist conditions. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Sometimes the dominant understory shrub forming dense communities. Grazed heavily by macropods. Nitrogen fixer. |
-amenity/ornamental values | The flowers are spectacular up-close but overall not very showy. The broad leaves and weeping habit make it an attractive plant. |
-economic/functional values | Foliage used as stock fodder during drought. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | average |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average |
-shade | average-high |
-soil salinity | not known |
-salt spray | probably reasonably high |
-pH | 4-7 |
-minimum temperature | -8 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 100 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | hard seed coat |
-treatment | hot water 90 degress for 1 minute |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 13-57 |
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