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Allocasuarina Luehmanii

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Price:
$110.00 (including GST)
Common Name:
BULOKE
Quantity of Trays:

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


Medium to tall tree suitable for areas with poor drainage. Good fuel wood. Most soils. Tolerates drought, lime and salt soil. Usually frost resistant.

 

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

  • 1. Spreading rounded shrub growing 1–4 m high and wide 
    2. Branchlets yellow or reddish, minutely hairy 
    3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, 1.5–5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, radiating around branchlets, variable in shape 
    4. Bright golden ball flowers in heavy clusters at branch ends; flower stalks stout, with minute golden hairs; flowering April to October 
    5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, dark brown at maturity, may have a whitish bloom 
    Typically a medium-sized tree 9 – 15 m tall. 
  • The branchlets up to about 50 cm in length, the articles mostly 8 – 10 mm long, with 10 – 14 leaf-teeth, up to 1 mm in diameter. 
  • The fruits are barrel-shaped, about 1 – 1.5 cm wide by 1.5 – 2 cm long, on peduncles 5 - 10 mm long, and with the bottom of the fruit, where it is attached to the peduncle, flat.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Grows on a wide range of soils, but mainly on sandy loams, and usually on lower parts of the terrain. 
  • Will thrive in well drained soil with little attention once established. 
  • Tolerate mild salt levels however it is best planted in low frost zones. 
  • Can tolerates drought. 

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Early growth is relatively fast, but this is generally considered a slow-growing species.
  • Suitable for both screen or hedge. 
  • Is a nitrogen fixing tree. 
  • Excellent tree for firewood and good properties for a windbreak. 
  • Seeds have been found to be a food source for the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo. 

 

 

Image Source: Greig, D. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)