Family | Myrtaceae |
Description | Small, often multi-stemmed tree with rather irregular form. |
Flowering time | Spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | NSW Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyl Forests, Western Slopes Grassy Woodland, Southern Tableland Grassy Woodland and Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyl Forests, often the dominant species in localised areas. |
Soil types | Specialises in skeletal volcanic soils, usually on ridges, rises and escarrpments. |
Values/uses | |
-habitat values | Sometimes co-dominant with other woodland trees but but often locally dominant in isolated patches. Flowers profusely and reliably from year to year. |
-amenity/ornamental values | An extremely attractive small tree with a colourful, often multi-stemmed trunk contrasting with a bluish-grey crown. Creamy white flowers are also very abandunt and attractive. Small enough for use in gardens. Individual trees vary in the degree of blueish colour in the foliage. |
-economic/functional values | Extremely useful for revegetation of eroded sites, quarries and mines with rocky, skeletal substrates without topsoil, provided the parent material is basic. Reasonably good firewood. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | extremely high |
-compaction | average to possibly high |
-waterlogging | average to possibly high |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | -10 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 631 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 3-21 |
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