Plant lists - Coastal - Shelter & Windbreaks

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 verticillata

Prickly Moses

*

*

*

*

3 x 3

*

**

*

*

*

*

*

Holy Moses that bugger is prickly- but birds love it!

ALLOCASUARINA verticillata

Drooping She Oak

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*

6-10 x 5

**

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

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

EUCALYPTUS baxteri

Brown Stringybark

*

10-15 x 8

*

*

*

*

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

EUCALYPTUS obliqua

Messmate

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*

*

25 x 10

*

*

*

*

Stringybark. Firewood, quick grower, adaptable

EUCALYPTUS viminalis

Manna Gum

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*

*

*

25 x 12

*

*

*

*

Stately iconic Koala tree, can drop branches, quick grower

LEPTOSPERMUM scoparium

Manuka

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3 x 3

***

*

*

*

*

*

*

Therapeutic honey source, front line coastal

MELALEUCA lanceolata

Moonah

*

5 x 4

*

*

**

*

*

*

*

Iconic twisted gnarled coastal shrub / tree

OZOTHAMNUS turbinatus

Coastal Everlasting

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3 x 3

***

*

*

*

Can withstand tough coastal conditions, pretty as well

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

BOTANICAL
NAME

COMMON
NAME

LOCAL TO
(INDIGENOUS)

SOILS ETC

TOLERANCES
(SEE KEY)

USED FOR

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

SPECIAL USES

ALYXIA buxifolia

Sea Box

*

3 x 3

*

***

**

*

FR

*

Bright red berries, full frontal coastal

BURSARIA spinosa

Sweet Bursaria

*

*

*

*

4-6 x 3

*

*

*

*

FL

*

Tall shrub, prickly, attracts insect predators - a must

LEUCOPOGON parviflorus

Coastal Beard Heath

*

3 x 3

*

***

*

FR

*

Dense shrub for coastal gardens, edible white berries

COASTAL

CLIMBERS & GROUNDCOVERS

AGROFORESTRY & FIREWOOD

EROSION & SALINITY

BIODIVERSITY & REVEGETATION

SHELTER & WINDBREAK

USEFUL /
EDIBLE

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