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Bursaria Lasiophylla
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Common Name:
HAIRY BURSARIA
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:
- Shrub to 2.5m high with clustered green leaves, hairy on underside.
- Timber is pale, fine-grained and tough.
WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:
- Widespread. More common in the higher rainfall areas than the similar Bursaria Spinosa (Sweet Bursaria) - species.
- Dry sclerophyll forest or woodland, on granite or metamorphic substrates.
- Well-drained soil. Tolerates frost and wind.
MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:
- Useful low level cover in windbreaks and useful for stabilising soils due to spreading/suckering habit.
- Long-lived. May be slow-growing.
- Excellent low-level cover in windbreaks.
- Useful for controlling gully erosion as fibrous roots bind soil.
- Timber seasons well due to little shrinkage. Takes fine polish and has pleasant scent when freshly cut.
- Useful habitat as bursaria hosts insects that feed on saw-fly larvae (spit-fire grubs) which feed on eucalypts. Also a nectar source for wasps that parasitise leaf-eating scarab insects and pasture grubs, generally within 200 metres of plants. Fragrant flowers attract butterflies, moths and other native insects. Insect-eating birds attracted. Thorny plants excellent refuge and nest sites for small birds.
- Excellent ornamental or specimens for hedges and cut flowers, due to summer flowering and bronze capsules over winter.
SIMILAR SPECIES:
- Distinguish Bursarias by the leaf underside. Bursaria Lasiophylla (Hairy Bursaria) has downy white leaf underside. Bursaria Spinosa (Sweet Bursaria) leaves green on both surfaces.
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