Family | Myrtaceae |
Description | Small-medium, very upright and rather open shrub. |
Flowering time | Spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Sclerophyll communities, often in areas associated with seepage or occasional waterlogging. |
Soil types | Often on lighter soils. |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | Important ecotone species and primary coloniser of eroded soils. |
-amenity/ornamental values | Very beautiful in flower but a non-descript plant at other times. Tolerates heavy pruning/coppicing. |
-other values | Attractive flowers and long stems make it a potentially useful cut flower species. |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | average to high |
-waterlogging | high |
-shade | low |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 4000 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none required |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 7-25 |
-direct seeding | average |
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