Family | Myrtaceae |
Description | Small to medium rounded shrub. |
Flowering time | Spring |
Distribution & botanical details | click here |
Vegetation communities | Seasonally waterlogged sites in sclerophyll communities. |
Soil types | Various but often on light soils with heavier waterlogged subsoils. |
Values/uses | |
-revegetation/habitat values | Very long lived structural understory component for swamp and wetland margins. |
-amenity/ornamental values | An attractive neat shrub. Reliable and long-lived. Superior to many other for commonly grown Melaleuca species. Could be used for urban shrub massing on freeways etc. |
-other values | |
Tolerances | |
-water deficit | high |
-compaction | high |
-waterlogging | high |
-shade | average |
-minimum temperature | -5 degrees |
Seed and germination details | |
-avge no. seeds per gram | 5000 |
-viability period | long |
-dormancy | none |
-treatment | none required |
-days from first to last germination at 25 degrees | 5-30 |
-direct seeding | average |
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