Communities

Scientific Name

Monotoca glauca

Family Name

EPACRIDACEAE

Common Name

Golden Wood

Status

Height

8.0m (800cm)

Flowers

Small, cream, solitary in axillary spikes.Trees often unisexual. Flowers sweetly fragrant.

Fruit

Berries or drupes

Form

A densely branched shrub or small tree with slender branches.

Municipalities

Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Derwent Valley; Devonport; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar

Communities

Wet Eucalypt Forest; Logged areas

Habitat Notes

Tas. endemic. Common understorey shrub at edges of wet forest and in previously logged areas. Hardy to most frosts and light snowfalls.

Site Tolerance

Moist; Shady

Frost Tolerance

Hardy

Soil Tolerance

Fertile; Loam; Phosphorous intolerant; Poor; Well-drained

General Notes

Susceptible to Phytophthora cinnamomi. An ideal hedging plant. Not suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Seed Collecting Months

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Sowing Months

Jan

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Cutting Months

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Seed Information

Seed Collection

Fruit, a drupe, greenish when mature, only about 2mm in diameter

Seed Treatment Method

Fermentation

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Difficult to grow from seed. Can take up to 18 months to germinate.

Germination Time

up to 18 months

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

5-8 weeks

Expected Time to Plant Out

6-12 months

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Cutting Notes

May be grown from cuttings with heat and mist. Care needed when pricking out as with all Epacridaceae because of fine roots. Can grow very strongly in the pot and need potting on or planting out quite quickly.