Acacia deanei - Deanes's Wattle

A shrub or small tree to 7m, often forming dense thickets, can be single or multi stemmed with smooth grey brown bark.  The young foliage is rust yellow coloured and featherlike throughout its life, ball shaped yellow to cream coloured flowers throughout the year but usually March to August.  This species is widespread in inland south QLD and central NSW & central VIC, oftne growing on plains, slopes and tablelands, near watercourses, in gullies or on stony hillsides and is found on a wide range of soil types.  It is extremely tolerant of drought, frost and wind and is a fast growing nitrogen fixing shrub/small tree that has the potential to play an important role in catchment protection.  It is also a valuable habitat for native birds and insects and useful for controlling erosion with its soil binding fibrous roots.

Bauhinia hookeri syn Lysiphyllum hookeri- Hooker's Bauhinia / Pegunny / Ebony

A hardy tree to 6m becoming leafless during the dry season in its natural environment.  It is an adaptable species and grows well in coastal and inland areas of the tropics and subtropics.  It is an interesting tree with large pale white to pink showy flowers in late Spring to early Summer with long red stamens and its leaves are held in small pairs which look like butterfly wings.  This species is distributed in north east QLD but also extends across the northern coast of Australia, with good potential for gardens, parks and as street trees in dry areas.

Eucalyptus globoidea - White Stringybark

A long lived medium sized tree to 20m with fibrous stringy red brown to light grey bark persistent to outer limbs.  This bark sometimes looks as though it has a criss crossed appearance at the base of the tree.  The flowers appear from February to September and are low on nectar but have a high pollen content, and are visited by winged invertebrates - note that flowering on individual trees may be years apart.  The foliage is occasionally eaten by koalas and fruit is borne in clusters of rounded sessile capsules often with flattened sides due to crowding.  This species is useful for timber and honey production and distributed on the NSW east coast and tablelands extending from eastern VIC to north of Coffs Harbour.