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Scientific Name
Exocarpos nanus
Family Name
SANTALACEAE
Common Name
Alpine Ballart
Status
Height
0.3m (30cm)
Flowers
Minute yellow-green flowers, sometimes with red, in axillary clusters of 2-4 together.
Fruit
Nuts
Form
Prostrate dwarf shrub with many spreading branches; leaves reduced to minute triangular scales.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Central Highlands; Dorset; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands
Communities
Grassy Vegetation; Montane Vegetation
Habitat Notes
Occasional in tussock grassland and grassy heaths. In wet places on the mountains of the north and northeast.
Site Tolerance
Moist; Moist
Frost Tolerance
Soil Tolerance
Loam; Phosphorous intolerant; Poor; Well-drained
General Notes
Some growers recommend seedlings be planted out where Casuarinaceae, Fabaceae, Mimosaceaea, Myrtaceae, or Proteaceae family are growing. One successful method from seed is feeding to hens, extracting from droppings , and sowing with Themeda triandra (Kangaroo Grass). Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
Flowering Months
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Dec
Seed Collecting Months
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Sowing Months
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Cutting Months
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Seed Information
Seed Collection
Seed is contained in hard nuts that become green to red-brown on maturity, attached to a succulent bright red elongated stalk to about 0.5 cm long, often profuse. harvest fruits individually by hand.
Seed Treatment Method
Standard
Seed Storage Life
Short
Viable Seeds Per Gram
Seed Treatment Notes
Difficult to grow from seed. Seed has short viability period; use fresh seed. Because of the semi-parasitic root development, it may be advisable to provide a host from the potting-on stage. Small shrubs or native grasses may be suitable hosts. See General notes.
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
No
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
No
Cutting Notes
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