Acacia paradoxa - Kangaroo Thorn

A spreading prickly shrub to 2-3m tall with yellow ball shaped flowers from July to October, dark brown finely fissured bark and weeping branches.  An excellent hedge or screening species and also very suitable for low maintenance areas such as road batters.  This species is native to eastern Australia and distributed in ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC and WA.  Note that this species can form dense thickets in high rainfall areas especially after bushfires.

Casuarina cunninghamiana - River Sheoak

A fast growing and long lived tree, 15-35m tall with fine dark green foliage and furrowed grey bark, commonly growing along or close to freshwater streams and rivers. The seed cones only appear on the female plants and the male trees release pollen from rust coloured spikes.  This species has an extensive root system that helps bind soil and can prevent erosion of stream banks.  A good choice for shade, shelter and windbreak, also improving soil fertility and fixes nitrogen in the soil, a valuable habitat and food tree for parrots, finches, wrens and other birds and also highly palatable to livestock so care must be taken with fencing near these trees.

Eucalyptus melliodora - Yellow Box

A relatively slow growing tree 15-30m tall, usually with a clear trunk with variable bark, spreading to moderately open crown, light mid green narrow leaves, young plants have a distinctive blue grey foliage.  Small white flowers occur August to December and seed capsules persist on the tree until at least the following Spring.  This species is frost and drought tolerant, and a common species int he grassy woodlands of the tablelands and the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range extending from northern VIC through NSW and a scattered distribution into SE QLD as far north as the Carnarvon Range and near Gladstone, occurring mainly on gentle slopes, foothills or on flats near watercourses on alluvials, loams and sandy loams.  It is suspected that there are inhibitors in the seedcoat that may delay germination in this species and that leaching or soaking the seed in large volumes of water will improve germination rates.