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Fabaceae FAMILY

Daviesia arborea

Daviesia arborea

Edibility
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Medicinal
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Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Daviesia arborea is an evergreen shrub or a small tree with weeping branches; it can grow up to 14 metres tall. The bole can be 15 - 30cm in diameter with a corky bark[ 365 Title Flora of New South Wales Publication Author Website http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/floraonline.htm Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An on-line resource giving a brief botanical description of all the native plants of New South Wales, their habitat and range, together with diagrams and photographs of the plants. , 601 Title The Useful Native Plants of Australia. Publication Author Maiden J.H. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Turner & Co.; London. Year 1889 ISBN Description Terse details of the uses of many Australian plants and other species naturalised, or at least growing, in Australia. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. Although it produces true leaves as a seedling, the mature plant does not have true leaves but has leaf-like flattened stems called phyllodes[ 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. ]. The plant produces a high quality timber.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate
Native RangeAustralia - New South Wales, Queensland
HabitatCoastal hills to mountain slopes and ridges in wet sclerophyll forest, sometimes on rainforest margins or in dry sclerophyll forest; on fine-textured soils derived from acid volcanic or metamorphic rocks; at elevations from 50 - 1,100 metres[ 1364 Title A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae) Publication Phytotaxa 300 (1): 001-308 Author Crisp M.D.; Cayzer L.; Chandler G.T.; Cook L.G. Website https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1 Publisher Year 2017 ISBN 1179-3155 Description ].