Acacia coriacea - Wirewood / Desert Oak / Dogwood / Wiry Wattle

A spreading tree/shrub to 10m with sometimes fibrous, hard or thick/spongy bark with linear leaves, new growth yellow-green.  Pale yellow or cream coloured globular flowers appear from March to August, seed pods are often trwisted and coiled.  This species is usually found on coastal dunes and ridges, sand plains, along rivers and creeks.

Banksia marginata - Honeysuckle / Silver Banksia

A low mainenance and adaptable often variable shrub, typically to 2m and has an attractive rounded, compact shape with dark green leaves with hairy white undersides and leaves appear silvery in the wind, sometimes small serrations may be found on leaf edges and tips.  Pale yellow flowers which occur in pairs, mainly February to July, are densely packed in cylindrical spikes to 100mm long. Sometimes these old spikes may persist on the plant and seeds are enclosed in follicles in woody cones.  This species produces a lot of nectar and attracts wildlife - the main pollinators are nectar feeding birds, insects and small mammals, seeds are also eaten by cockatoos.

Eucalyptus haemastoma - Broad Leaved Scribbly Gum

A long lived, adaptable  and hardy small to medium tree growing to 15m with smooth white bark often with varying degrees of insect damage/attack which leave distinctive scribble marks on the trunk or often multiple trunks.  It has a relatively open crown with large, glossy and drooping leaves, silver-grey in colour and usually with a distict yellow mid vein.  White flowers appear from Autumn to Spring which are then followed by small capsules to 9mm long.  This is a useful street tree due to low height, foliage is often browsed by Koalas and attracts fauna when in flower for its nectar production, also older trees can develop hollow logs used by a range of Australian fauna.