TREES
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Acacia mearnsii - Black Wattle
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Tree with dark green, feathery foliage, and pale yellow, globular, flower
Up to 12m
Tolerates full sun-full shade
Dry to moist soils
Features – Butterfly, Aboriginal uses
Gum was collected from cuts or fissures on the trunks and rolled into balls. It was used for eating, to make drinks and mixed with ashes to make cement. An infusion of the bark and water was used to treat indigestion. Weapons were made from the wood.
Food for caterpillars of Blue Jewel and Common Imperial Blue.
Acacia melanoxylon - Blackwood
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Moderately dense, grey-green, spreading tree, with clustered, globular, pale yellow flowers, on branched stalks.
Up to 30m
Prefers part shade, tolerates full sun.
Moist soils
Features – Butterfly, Aboriginal uses
Bark heated over fire then infused in bathing water was a treatment for rheumatism. Clubs, shields and spearthrowers were made from the wood.
Food for caterpillars of Blue Jewel, Common Imperial Blue, Grampians Hairstreak and Silky Hairstreak.
Up to 30m
Prefers part shade, tolerates full sun.
Moist soils
Features – Butterfly, Aboriginal uses
Bark heated over fire then infused in bathing water was a treatment for rheumatism. Clubs, shields and spearthrowers were made from the wood.
Food for caterpillars of Blue Jewel, Common Imperial Blue, Grampians Hairstreak and Silky Hairstreak.
Allocasuarina littoralis - Black Sheoak
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A leafless tree, with fine, curved, grey-green branchlets, and woody cones.
Up to 15 m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Dry, soils
Features – Aboriginal uses
Implements and weapons were made from the wood.
Up to 15 m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Dry, soils
Features – Aboriginal uses
Implements and weapons were made from the wood.
Allocasurina verticillata - Drooping Sheoak
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A spreading, leafless tree, with fine, curved, grey-green branchlets, and woody cones.
Up to 10m
Tolerates full sun
Dry, soils
Features – Bird, Aboriginal uses
Implements and weapons were made from the wood.
Provides seeds for birds
Up to 10m
Tolerates full sun
Dry, soils
Features – Bird, Aboriginal uses
Implements and weapons were made from the wood.
Provides seeds for birds
Banksia integrifolia - Coastal Banksia
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A tree, with large, leaves and pale yellow flowers massed in large, cylindrical spikes.
Up to 25m
Tolerates full sun
Dry soils
Features – Bird, Aboriginal uses
The nectar from the banksia cones was used to make drinks. Paint brushes came from the stamens. Cones also attract birds and bees
Up to 25m
Tolerates full sun
Dry soils
Features – Bird, Aboriginal uses
The nectar from the banksia cones was used to make drinks. Paint brushes came from the stamens. Cones also attract birds and bees
Banksia marginata - Silver Banksia
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A shrub or small tree, with large, dark green leaves and pale yellow flowers massed in large, cylindrical spikes.
Up to 12m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Dry to moist soils
Features – Bird, Butterfly
Provides nectar for birds and butterflies
Up to 12m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Dry to moist soils
Features – Bird, Butterfly
Provides nectar for birds and butterflies
Eucalyptus ovata - Swamp Gum
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A medium to large tree often branching quite near to the ground. Bark dark brown and sub-fibrous on lower trunk, smooth and mostly pale grey on upper trunk and branches.
Up to 8-30m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Moist, swampy soils
Features – Bird, Butterfly
Provides nectar and seed for birds, food for caterpillars. Koalas eat the leaves
Up to 8-30m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Moist, swampy soils
Features – Bird, Butterfly
Provides nectar and seed for birds, food for caterpillars. Koalas eat the leaves
Eucalyptus pauciflora - Snow Gum
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A tree usually branching at or near the base bark smooth, shed in patches and strips,
colour varying from white to cream
Up to 10m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Dry to moist soils does not tolerate salt winds.
An uncommon species in southern Victoria, it is normally restricted to alpine regions.
Features – Bird, Butterfly
Provides nectar and seeds for birds, food for caterpillars
colour varying from white to cream
Up to 10m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Dry to moist soils does not tolerate salt winds.
An uncommon species in southern Victoria, it is normally restricted to alpine regions.
Features – Bird, Butterfly
Provides nectar and seeds for birds, food for caterpillars
Eucalyptus viminalis ssp pryorianna Coast Manna Gum
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A tree with branches drooping at tips. Bark on trunk and lower branches dark brown,
fibrous; on upper branches, smooth, white to creamy, shedding in short ribbons.
8-12m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Well drain sandy soils
Features – Bird, Butterfly
An important Koala tree. Provides nectar and seeds for birds, food for caterpillars.
fibrous; on upper branches, smooth, white to creamy, shedding in short ribbons.
8-12m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Well drain sandy soils
Features – Bird, Butterfly
An important Koala tree. Provides nectar and seeds for birds, food for caterpillars.
Eucalyptus radiata - Narrow-leaved Peppermint
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A tree with dense, spreading, pendulous crown. Bark grey-brown, fine textured, fibrous, persistent to all but smallest branches.
Up to 15m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Dry to moist soils
Features – Bird, Butterfly
Provides nectar and seeds for birds, food for caterpillars.
Up to 15m
Tolerates full sun-part shade
Dry to moist soils
Features – Bird, Butterfly
Provides nectar and seeds for birds, food for caterpillars.
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Myoporum insulare- Boobialla
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A shrub or Small tree, with grey-green leaves and white flowers
A shrub or
Up to 13m
Tolerates Full sun
Dry soils
Features-
Provides berries for birds
A shrub or
Up to 13m
Tolerates Full sun
Dry soils
Features-
Provides berries for birds