Download Windbreak plants and paddock tree species for Pinery fire affected

Windbreak plants and paddock tree
species for Pinery fire affected area
Trees (Note – tree species provided will vary for different planting locations)
Allocasuarina verticillata
Drooping Sheoak
Calltris gracilis
Height: 3 – 6 m
Southern Cypress
Pine
Width: 2 m
Height: 5 – 12 m
Notes:
Width: 3 m
Hardy, slow growing tree.
Rounded canopy of
drooping branchlets with
thin, needle like leaves.
Notes:
Regeneration from
seed as killed by fire.
Very palatable to
grazing animals.
Eucalyptus dumosa
Hardy, long lived tree
preferring well drained
soils. Initially slow growing.
Termite resistant timber.
Killed by fire. Regeneration
from seed.
Eucalyptus gracilis
White Mallee
Yorrell
Height: 3 – 8 m
Height: 3 – 10 m
Width: can spread
to over 6 m
Width: can spread
to over 6 m
Notes:
Notes:
Single or multi-trunked
tree.
Single or multi-trunked
tree.
Re-sprouts from base
(lignotuber) following fire
or other disturbance.
Re-sprouts from base
(lignotuber) following fire
or other disturbance.
Eucalyptus incrassata
Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp pruinosa
Ridge Fruited Mallee
Inland SA Blue Gum
Height: 4 – 8 m
Height: 5 – 20 m
Width: can spread
to over 6 m
Width: can spread
to over 10 m
Notes:
Notes:
Prefers sandy, well
drained soils. Re-sprouts
from base (lignotuber)
following fire or other
disturbance.
Tall, stately, mainly smooth
barked gum tree.
Often re-sprouts from
trunk and base following
fire or other disturbance.
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Trees (continued)
Eucalyptus odorata
Eucalyptus porosa
Peppermint Box
Mallee Box
Height: 4 – 15 m
Height: 4 – 14 m
Width: can spread
to over 10 m
Width: can spread
to over 10 m
Notes:
Notes:
Rough barked, single
or multi-trunked tree.
Rough barked, single
or multi-trunked tree.
Re-sprouts from base
(lignotuber) and
occasionally from trunk
following fire or other
disturbance.
Prefers heavier soils and
is tolerant of temporary
waterlogging.
Re-sprouts from base
(lignotuber) following
fire or other disturbance.
Eucalyptus socialis
Red Beaked Mallee
Height: 3 – 12 m
Width: can spread
to over 6 m
Notes:
Rough bark at base,
smooth further up trunk.
Highly drought tolerant.
Re-sprouts from base
(lignotuber) following
fire or other disturbance.
Shrubs (Note – shrub species provided will vary for different planting locations)
Acacia acinaceae
Acacia brachybotrya
Round Leaved
Wattle
Grey Mulga-bush
Height: 1 – 3 m
Width: up to 3 m
Width: up to 3 m
Notes:
Notes:
Compact, dense, rounded,
spreading, grey-green
shrubs. Yellow flowers
in winter and spring.
Hardy, attractive shrub
with yellow flowers in
late winter to early spring.
Height: 1 – 3 m
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Shrubs (continued)
Acacia hakeoides
Acacia ligulata
Hakea Wattle
Umbrella Bush
Height: 1 – 4 m
Height: 1 – 5 m
Width: can equal height
Width: can equal height
Notes:
Notes:
Fast growing, bushy,
spreading shrub.
Prefers sandy soil but
will grow on wide range
of soil types.
Has a suckering habit
if roots are disturbed.
Yellow flowers in winter
and spring.
Acacia notabilis
Yellow flowers in winter
and spring.
Acacia oswaldii
Notable Wattle
Umbrella Wattle
Height: 1 – 3 m
Height: 2 – 6 m
Width: 2 m
Width: can equal height
Notes:
Notes:
Attractive spreading
shrub with yellow flowers
in winter and spring.
Dense, rounded, spreading
shrub or small tree.
Leaves rigid, ending with
a sharp point.
Yellow flowers mainly
in summer.
Acacia retinodes
Acacia sclerophylla
Wirilda
Hard Leaf Wattle
Height: 4 – 6 m
Height: 1 – 2 m
Width: to 4 m
Width: often greater
than height
Notes:
Fast growing shrub or
small tree. Sweetly scented
pale yellow flowers in
late spring and summer.
Notes:
Dense, spreading shrub.
Masses of yellow flowers
in late winter and spring.
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Shrubs (continued)
Bursaria spinosa
Dodonaea viscosa ssp spatulata
Sweet Bursaria
Sticky Hop Bush
Height: 1.5 – 3 m
Height: 1 – 3 m
Width: to 2 m
Width: to 2m
Notes:
Notes:
Shrub, often with spiny
branches.
Hardy shrub that produces
attractive red seed capsules
after flowering.
Clusters of sweetly
scented white flowers
appear in summer. Can
re-sprout from the base
following fire.
Melaleuca lanceolata
Can re-sprout from the
base following fire.
Pittosporum phylliraeoides
(now P. angustifolium)
Dryland Tea Tree
Native Apricot
Height: 2 – 6 m
Height: 6 – 8 m
Width: to 4 m
Width: 2 – 3 m
Notes:
Notes:
Shrub or small tree with
dense canopy.
Clusters of white flowers
in summer.
Slow-growing but
long-lived small tree
with graceful drooping
branches.
May re-sprout following fire.
Palatable to stock.
May re-sprout after fire.
Rhagodia parabolica
Fragrant Salt Bush
Senna artemisioides ssp coriacea/
petiolaris/filifolia
Height: 1 – 2 m
Senna / Desert
Cassia
Width: to 2 m
Height: 1 – 2 m
Notes:
Width: to 2 m
Dense, low shrub.
Notes:
Clusters of tiny, sweet
smelling flowers followed
by red berries that are
eaten by birds. Palatable
to grazing animals.
Hardy shrub with showy
yellow flowers in late
winter to spring. Leaf
shape variable depending
on subspecies.
Resprouts from the base
following fire.