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Common Names | Boree |
Family | Mimosaceae - Mimosa family. |
Name Origin | From Latin pendulus, pendulous or hanging, referring to habit. |
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Notes | No Specimen Data Available | ||
Collector | Date | 01/09/1997 | |
Determined By | Date | 01/09/1997 |
Regional: | Mainly west of Olympic Highway on lower country and plains. |
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Australia: | Qld, NSW, Vic. |
Habitat: | Major river floodplains, and the Riverine Plain, sometimes as dominant species on heavy clay soils. Often in large stands. |
Habit: | Erect or spreading tree, 5-13 m high. Rounded grey-green crown of conspicuously drooping 'leaves' and branchlets. Fissured grey bark. |
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Characteristics: | although very old trees damaged by lopping and may die. Prone to use by the Bag-shelter moth, which occasionally kills |
Flowering: | Golden-yellow, mainly summer to autumn. Irregular, depending on season. |
Seed Collection: | Early Oct to Jan. |
Propagation: | From seed (6-28 viable seeds per gram). Immerse seeds in hot water at 90oC for about one minute, before drying and sowing. |
Regeneration: | From seed if livestock fenced out. Coppices after fire. |
Timber: | Excellent Fuel. Was used extensively. Reasonable quality. Hard, heavy, dark and attractively marked, with violet-like fragrance. Used for fence posts and manufacturing trinket boxes and similar items. |
Shade and Shelter: | Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks. |
Land Protection: | Legume - improves soil fertility through 'fixing' nitrogen. |
Wildlife: | Excellent habitat. Provides useful supplies of pollen. Often eaten by Procession caterpillars. Seeds eaten by parrots. |
Ornamental: | Very attractive ornamental, due to weeping grey foliage. |
Other: | Boomerangs made from wood. Valuable drought fodder. |
Note: The following information presented is only a guide, as plant characteristics vary depending on provenance (the plant's locality).
Site/Preferred Habitat : | floodplains/ flats |
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Rainfall(mm) : | 250 |
Growth Rate : | slow |
Tolerates : | frost |
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Uses & Comments : | windbreak; fuel, fixes nitrogen; timber; fodder. Hosts Bag Shelter Moth. |