Silver Wattle at Chiltern, VIC
Identification history
| Acacia dealbata subsp. dealbata | 30 Nov 2021 | Darcy | ||
| Acacia dealbata subsp. dealbata | 27 Nov 2021 | KylieWaldon |
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User's notes
lots of seedlings but only on the track to the dam.
3 comments
Darcy
wrote:
30 Nov 2021
Yeah many wattles like a bit of soil disturbance to help kick of their germination from the seedbank. Because Australia has lost so many small digging mammals (extinct or range greatly reduced), which would traditionally disturb the soil, you often find places where there's lots of wattles along tracks and roads, but not out in the rest of the forest
KylieWaldon
wrote:
1 Dec 2021
That makes sense Darcy. Yes I've seen that quite a bit and wondered why (some super fauna bird ooping lots of eaten seeds there altogether? not...)
Darcy
wrote:
2 Dec 2021
Birds might contribute to dispersing the seeds, but they'll often just sit in the seedbank until they get a bit of soil disturbance to trigger germination. Or there's some birds that probably just destroy the seed when they eat them, and thus wouldn't spread many seeds. I've seen a lot of cocky's munchin on wattle seeds - don't reckon many seeds would survive that encounter XD
Location information
- Coordinates 146.641435-36.159250
- Places Chiltern, VIC
Sighting information
- 25 Abundance
- 27 Nov 2021 09:50 AM Recorded on
- KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Collections
KylieWaldon NatureMapr Acacia dealbata subsp. dealbata Wattles Plants
Additional information
- Less than 10cm Plant height
Species information
- Acacia dealbata subsp. dealbata Scientific name
- Silver Wattle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1273m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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Synonyms
Nummerak
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