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Acacia salicina - Broughton Willow / Cooba

A vigorous, long lived, nitrogen fixing, spreading tree with a pendulous habit to 14m tall and adaptable nature with yellow ball shaped flowers in late Winter and Spring.  The narrow phyllodes are very striking and are an interesting feature of this species.  This has a widespread distribution in eastern Australia occurring in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Northern Territory - usually near rivers but in drier areas.

Eucalyptus coolabah  - Coolabah

A tree, 10-20m tall with bark persistant on trunk and large branches, dark grey-white patched, smooth above and sheds in ribbons and small white flowers.  This species is distributed in New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia and is very similar to Eucalyptus microtheca, sometimes even as a synonym to Coolabah.

Senna artemesiodes ssp artemesiodes syn Cassia artemesiodes - Feathery Senna / Feathery Cassia

A large evergreen, woody, open shrub with a rounded habit to 1.2m with grey-blue feathery foliage and aromatic sulphur yellow, pea shaped flowers occur in Spring on old wood.  The fruit is not very attractive - first green then turning brown as they ripen looking like a bean pod in late Spring to early Summer.