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Bursaria Spinosa
Price:
$110.00
(including GST)
Common Name:
SWEET 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:
- Sparse woody shrub or small tree growing 1–8 m high.
- Branches smooth, usually with slender thorns or spines.
- Leaves often clustered at nodes, 10–40 mm long, 3–10 mm wide; both surfaces hairless in subspecies spinosa; pale matted hairs occur under the leaf in subspecies lasiophylla.
- Flowers prolific, small, white and sweetly scented, in clusters at branch ends.
- Seed capsules 6–9 mm across, thin and purse-like, becoming brown at maturity; seeds rattle within when mature.
- Flowering mainly in summer.
WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:
- Occurs In wet or dry eucalypt forest and woodland on a variety of soil types.
- Extremely tolerant of frost, wind and drought.
- Often remains on cleared land due to sharp spines deterring browsing stock.
MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:
- Important nectar source for butterflies and other native insects, especially wasps which parasitise cockchafer and Christmas beetle larvae that damage pastures and eucalypts.
- Useful low level cover in windbreaks.
- Useful for soil erosion control as fibrous roots bind soil.
- Thorny foliage provides safe refuge and nesting sites for small birds.
SIMILAR SPECIES:
- Distinguish Bursarias by the leaf underside. Barsaria Lasiophylla (Hairy Bursaria) has downy white leaf underside. Bursaria Spinosa (Sweet Bursaria) leaves green on both surfaces.
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