Plant lists - Coastal - Agroforestry & Firewood

COASTAL

ALL PLANTS	TREES	MIDSTOREY	UNDERSTOREY	CLIMBERS & GROUNDCOVERS
AGROFORESTRY & FIREWOOD	EROSION & SALINITY	BIODIVERSITY & REVEGETATION	SHELTER & WINDBREAK	USEFUL / EDIBLE

BOTANICAL
NAME

COMMON
NAME

LOCAL TO (INDIGENOUS)

TOLERANCES
(SEE KEY)

ENVIRONMENTAL
CONDITIONS

USED FOR

KEY TO TOLERANCES
• Somewhat tolerant
•• Quite tolerant
••• Most tolerant

SPECIAL USES

ACACIA dealbata

Silver Wattle

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6-10 x 5

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Firewood, showy flowers, fast grower but variable size with site.

ALLOCASUARINA verticillata

Drooping She Oak

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6-10 x 5

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Firewood, wind whistler, weeping habit, tough, beaut wood

EUCALYPTUS baxteri

Brown Stringybark

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10-15 x 8

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For sandy soils in heath country ain't pretty but tough

EUCALYPTUS cypellocarpa

Mountain Grey Gum

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30 x 15

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Tall stately ridge tree, quick growing, Agroforestry

EUCALYPTUS globulus

Blue Gum

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30 x 15

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Local species, quick growing, honey, Agroforestry

EUCALYPTUS obliqua

Messmate

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25 x 10

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Stringybark. Firewood, quick grower, adaptable

EUCALYPTUS viminalis

Manna Gum

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25 x 12

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Stately iconic Koala tree, can drop branches, quick grower

MELALEUCA lanceolata

Moonah

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5 x 4

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Iconic twisted gnarled coastal shrub / tree

BOTANICAL
NAME

COMMON
NAME

LOCAL TO (INDIGENOUS)

TOLERANCES
(SEE KEY)

ENVIRONMENTAL
CONDITIONS

USED FOR

KEY TO TOLERANCES
• Somewhat tolerant
•• Quite tolerant
••• Most tolerant

SPECIAL USES

COASTAL

CLIMBERS & GROUNDCOVERS

AGROFORESTRY & FIREWOOD

EROSION & SALINITY

BIODIVERSITY & REVEGETATION

SHELTER & WINDBREAK

USEFUL /
EDIBLE

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