Myoporum Montanum

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Common Name:

WESTERN BOOBIALLA

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:

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
Attractive, hardy growing shrub growing up to 8 m with deep green foliage and white flowers with purplish dots appearing most of the year.
Finely fissured bark and narrow leaves about 3-14cm long. Usually scattered plants or in small, relatively dense colonies.
White flowers with purplish dots appearing most of the year, particually in winter-summer.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Sclerophyll forest, mallee and White Cypress Pine communities.
Tolerates most well-drained soils and situations, frost and extended dry periods.
Can also tolerates alkaline soils.
Prefers full sun but will grow in partial shade, not as dense as full sun.
Can be rejuvenated by pruning or cuting back hard if it becomes too woody.
Well-drained soil in full sun. Tolerates severe drought.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Excellent for embankment and erosion control and is a good fire retardant plant.
Attractive ornamental for garden windbreaks, parks, screens or informal hedges.
Excellent habitat. Flowers are a good pollen and nectar source. Fruits food for native birds.
Attractive ornamental for garden windbreaks, parks, screens or informal hedges.
Low flammability. Appears to be very unpalatable to livestock.

Image Source: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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