For guidance on planning your revegetation or restoration site (size, shape, species, density of planting) refer to chapters four and five of this site.

Remember: good quality vegetation sites may not need revegetation at all. Appropriate management can encourage natural regeneration.

General Native Vegetation Profile:

Brungle and Killimicat (Brungle to Tumorrama)

LANDFORM Floodplains
VEGETATION TYPE River Red Gum Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Dermasols on the river floodplain Geology – Alluvium
LOCATION EXAMPLE Brungle
TREES >8M Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
+Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Casuarina cunninghamiana
River Sheoak
+#Eucalyptus blakelyi
Blakely’s Red Gum
+#E. bridgesiana
Apple Box
E. camaldulensis River Red Gum
+#E. melliodora Yellow Box

+ drier areas of floodplain

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m #Bursaria sp. Bursaria
#Callistemon sieberi River Bottlebrush
#Melicytes dentatus Tree Violet
#Leptospermum brevipes Slender Tea Tree

# not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

 

LANDFORM Low to Mid Slopes
VEGETATION TYPE White Box Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS Range is highly variable, Ferrosols, Kurosols, Sodosols, Rudusols. Geology – Coolac serpentinite
LOCATION EXAMPLE Yass Shire Road east of Brungle Creek
TREES >8M Acacia implexa Lightwood/Hickory Wattle
A. melanoxylon Blackwood
Allocasuarina verticillata Drooping Sheoak
Banksia marginata Silver Banksia
Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus albens White Box
E. blakelyi Blakely’s Red Gum
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. bridgesiana Apple Box
+E. melliodora Yellow Box
#+E. polyanthemos Red Box
Exocarpus cupressiformis Native Cherry

+Lower slopes

#Not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Bursaria spinosa Native Blackthorn
Daviesia leptophylla Slender-leaf Bitter-pea
Dillwynia phyllicoides Small-leaf Parrot-pea
D. sericea Showy Parrot-pea
Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Narrow-leaf Hop Bush
Grevillea rosmarinifolia Mountain Grevillea
Kunzea ericoides Burgan
Leptospermum sp. Tea Tree
Ricinocarpos bowmanii Western Wedding-bush

# Not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

 

LANDFORM Upper Slopes
VEGETATION TYPE Montane woodland/Forest
GEOLOGY & SOILS Soils mostly Kandosols, some Kurosols. Geology mostly Granodiorite
LOCATION EXAMPLE Eastern Billapalloola Rd / Buccleuch Stale
TREES >8M Acacia melanoxylon Blackwood
#Brachychiton populneus Kurrajong
Eucalyptus camphora Mountain Swamp Gum
E. dalrympleana Mountain Gum
E. macrorhyncha Red Stringybark
E. melliodora Yellow Box
E. nortonii Long leaf Box
E. robertsonii Robertson’s Peppermint

# Not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m Acacia dealbata Silver Wattle
#Daviesia latifolia Hop Bitterpea
Leptospermum continentale Prickly Tea-tree
Mirbelia oxylobioides Mountain Mirbelia
Pultenaea cunninghamii Grey Bush-pea

# Not noted in area but suggested for re-planting