Family | Fabaceae |
Description | Small, open rounded shrub |
Flowering time | spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Widespread in heath and sclerophyl communities. |
Soil types | Most common on sandy soils |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | Able to colonise disturbed sites, subsoils and skeletal soils. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Very showy in flower. |
-other values | Nitrogen fixer. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | low |
-waterlogging | low |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 170 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | physical |
-treatment | boiling water or scarification |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 5-20 |
-direct seeding | easy |
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