Family | Chenopodiaceae |
Description | Perennial sprawling subshrub |
Flowering time | spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Widespread in a range of woodland communities. |
Soil types | Wide range. |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | Very useful species for direct seeding on hostile sites. Colonisers bare ground rapidly but also long-lived as an understory component under large trees. Fleshy fruits important food source for birds and animals. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Attractive foliage and very colourful in fruit. Fruits most commonly red or orange but yellow, pink and white forms also exist. |
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Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | average |
-waterlogging | average |
-shade | high |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 50 |
-viability period | not known |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none required |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | not known |
-direct seeding | easy |
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