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Atriplex Semibaccata
Price:
$110.00
(including GST)
Common Name:
BERRY SALTBUSH
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:
- Prostrate, perennial, small shrub or groundcover with conspicuous red fruits.
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Forms dense mats.Forms dense mats.
WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:
- Mainly west of the Olympic Highway.
- Widespread in drier country.
MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:
- Extremely hardy and tolerates drought and salt.
- Useful firebreak.
- Useful for colonising bare areas, scalds, eroding and saline sites.
- Forage for dry areas. Good habitat. Small native birds and ants eat berries.
- Useful groundcover for gardens beneath other plants, cascading over rocks or walls, on slopes, embankments or road median strips.
SIMILAR SPECIES:
- Frequently hybridises with the Atriplex Spinibractea - Spiny-fruit Saltbush.
Image Source: Flower - Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)
Image Source: Plant - Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)