Acacia Stenophylla

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

RIVER COOBA

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

Bark rough and fissured, dark grey-brown

‘Leaves’ long and narrow, 14–40 cm long, 1–7 mm wide, grey-green and leathery

Creamy-yellow ball flowerheads in sparse clusters; flowering mainly March to July

Seed pods 10–20 cm long, up to 10 mm wide, woody at maturity, constricted between seeds like a string of beads
Tall shrub or small erect tree growing 4–10 m high with fine, weeping foliage.
Bark rough and fissured, dark grey-brown.
‘Leaves’ long and narrow, 14–40 cm long, 1–7 mm wide, grey-green and leathery.
Creamy-yellow ball flowerheads in sparse clusters; flowering mainly March to July.
Seed pods 10–20 cm long, up to 10 mm wide, woody at maturity, constricted between seeds like a string of beads.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Grows on heavy clay soils near watercourses and around the margins of swamps and depressions; widespread in inland arid areas.
Highly tolerant of inundation and waterlogging.
Seeds spread during floods and can establish above normal river height.
Tolerates frost and alkaline or saline soils.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful low level cover in windbreaks and useful for stabilising soils due to spreading/suckering habit.
Hardy and long-lived; suckers freely; useful for soil stabilisation.
Good low to medium cover for windbreaks and shelterbelts; has good resistance to debarking by stock.
Improves soil fertility by ‘fixing’ nitrogen.
Valuable habitat; provides pollen, nectar and seed for native birds and insects.
Timber is dark, very hard, heavy, close-grained and polishes well.

Image Source: Flower - Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Image Source: Plant - Stitchingbushwalker, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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