Characteristics:
A spring/summer flowering shrub growing to about 5M in height, occasionally a small tree up to 12M, with papery bark. Fast growing in wetter clay soil types, it is frost tolerant and possesses opposite leaves with glandular dots. The leaves are in four rows when you look down the stem, they are about 5-15 mm long and relatively broad and flat. The flowers are yellow to yellowish white bottle brushes, and leave capsules in groups on the stem. Thrives in part or full sun.
Preferred Conditions:
The Scented Paperbark is found in heath and in dry sclerophyll forest in damp, often waterlogged, places; in coastal districts and their adjacent ranges.
Uses:
Borders, flowering shrub, waterside, wetland or bog, basic hedge and screen
Propagation:
Flowering Months: Sep Oct Nov Seed Collecting Months: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sowing Months: Jan Feb Mar ... Aug Sep Oct Nov Cutting Months: Sep Oct Nov Seed Collection: Collect older capsules at any time. Harvest branches with capsules & air or kiln dry. Avoid collecting when in bloom or immediately after as stamens contaminate seed. Seed looks like ground pepper Seed Treatment Method: Seeds have a long storage life and can have up to 30000 viable seeds per gram. Keep very damp after sowing. Seed gives good germination. If no growth is evident 2 weeks after germination soluble fertilizer may be used. Bog method is very successful. Seeds are suitable for direct seeding and ermination should be evident in 10-30 days. It can also be propagated from cuttings.
Characteristics: A hardwood, Eucalyptus regnans is the tallest of all flowering plants, and possibly the tallest of all plants. They grow very quickly, at more than a metre a year, and can reach 65 metres in 50 years, with an average life-span of 400 years. The fallen logs continue supporting a rich variety of life for centuries more on the forest floor.
Perferred Conditions: It prefers cool, deep soil with high rainfall of over 1200 mm per year.
Characteristics: It is a hardwood with thick, rough, stringy bark, and glossy green leaves from six to 22 centimetres long, and 1½ to 7 centimetres wide. Inflorescences consist of seven to 15 white flowers.
Perferred Conditions: It occurs on a wide range of soils in hilly or mountainous areas. In cool mountainous areas it forms tall open-forest.
