You Yangs Granite indigenous plants

This information sheet covers the indigenous plants in the You Yangs granite area.

Zone 15 Consists of poor fertility coarse sandy soils with rock and granite outcrops. Steep to gently sloping hills prone to erosion. The average rainfall is 42 - 50 centimetres.

The information for this zone comes from records of vegetation in the You Yangs Regional Park.

Originally this area had a high diversity of species, many of which are now absent or depleted. Examples of species that are now absent from this area include Silver Banksia and Rosemary Grevillea.

On the granitic outwash fan surrounding the You Yangs, seasonal swamps in broad depressions occur. These areas have a distinct vegetation community consisting of River Red Gum, Prickly Tea-tree, Golden Spray and Rough Paperbark.

On the drier ridges and upper slopes trees include Red Stringybark, Red Ironbark and Moonah. Examples of shrub species were Kangaroo Apple, Rock Correa and a variety of Wattle species.

Tree species
Common name	Botanical name	Size (height by width in metres)		1	2
Lightwood	Acacia implexa	5-15	4-7	Y	Y
Black Wattle	Acacia mearnsii	8-25	6-10	X	-
Golden Wattle	Acacia pycnantha	3-10	2-5	Y	-
Drooping Sheoke	Allocasuarina verticillata	4-11	3-6	Y	X
River Red Gum	Eucalyptus camaldulensis	15-35	15-35	-	Y
Gippsland Blue Gum	Eucalyptus globulus ssp. pseudoglobulus	6	10-30	-	Y
Yellow Gum	Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp connata	10-20	6-20	-	Y
Red Stringybark	Eucalyptus macrorhyncha	10-35	10-20	Y	-
Swamp Gum	Eucalyptus ovata	8-30	8-20	-	X
Red Box	Eucalyptus polyanthemos	7-25	5-15	Y	-
Red Ironbark	Eucalyptus tricarpa	10-30	10-20	Y	-
Manna Gum	Eucalyptus viminalis	10-20	8-15	YS	Y
Cherry Ballart	Exocarpos cupressiformis	3-8	3-5	Y	X
Moonah	Melaleuca lanceolata	1-8	3-6	Y	-
Shrub Species
Gold-dust wattle	Acacia acinacea	0.5-2.5	2-4	X	Y
Myrtle Wattle	Acacia myrtifolia	1-3	1-2	Y	-
Hedge Wattle	Acacia paradoxa	2-4	2-5	Y	-
Silver Banksia	Banksia marginata	1-10	1-5	X	-
Sweet Bursaria	Bursaria spinosa var macrophylla	2-6	2-3	Y	-
White Cypress-pine	Callitris glaucophylla	5	20	X	-
Drooping Cassinia	Cassinia arcuata	1-3	1-2	Y	Y
Rock Correa	Correa glabra	1-3	1-3	Y	-
Gorse Bitter-pea	Daviesia ulicifolia	1.5	1-2	Y	-
Eutaxia	Eutaxia microphylla	1	1	Y	-
Rosemary Grevillea	Grevillea rosmarinifolia	1-3	2-3	X	-
Shrub Violet	Hymenanthera dentata var. angustifolia	2-4	1-2.5	Y	-
Australian Indigo	Indigofera australis	1-2	1-2	Y	-
Prickly Tea-tree	Leptospermum continentale	1-4	1-2	Y	Y
Sticky Boobialla	Myoporum viscosum	0.5-2	1.5-2	Y	-
Twiggy Daisy-bush	Olearia ramulosa	0.5-2.5	1	Y	-
Bootlace Bush	Pimelea axiflora	1-3	1-2	X	-
Snowy Mint-bush	Prostanthera nivea	3	2.5	Y	-
Large-leaf Bush-pea	Pultenaea daphnoides	1-3	0.5-2	Y	-
Seaberry Saltbush	Rhagodia candolleana	2	1-2.5	Y	-
Fragrant Saltbush	Rhagodia parabolica	0.8-2	0.5-1.5	X	-
Kangaroo Apple	Solanum laciniatum	1-3	1-3	Y	-
Groundcover and Tussock Species
Berry Saltbush	Atriplex semibaccata	0.1-0.3	1-3	Y	-
Common Everlasting	Chrysocephalum apiculatum	0.3	1-2	-	Y
S - sheltered gullies
X - species once occurred in this area
Y - species is present in areas of remnant vegetation