Mates Gully

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:

Lower slopes

Upper slopes

LANDFORM	Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE	Box woodland (eg. Red Box)
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Riverine deposits of sand, silt, clay & gravel. Yellow solonetzic (mottled duplex) & red and yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Sturt Highway to Hume Highway (Tarcutta Road)
TREES >8M	Eucalyptus blakelyi	Blakely’s Red Gum
	E. bridgesiana	Apple Box
	+ E. camaldulensis	River Red Gum
	E. melliodora	Yellow Box
	E. microcarpa	Grey Box
	E. polyanthemos	Red Box
	+ creeklines only
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia deanei	Deane’s Wattle
	A. decora	Western Silver Wattle
	A. paradoxa	Kangaroo Thorn
	A. pycnantha	Golden Wattle
	+ Leptospermum continentale	Prickly Tea-tree
	+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS	#+ Carex spp.	Sedge
	Chrysocephalum apiculatum	Yellow Buttons
	# Dianella revoluta	Spreading Flax-lily
	#+ Juncus spp.	Rush
	# Maireana microphylla	Eastern Cottonbush
	# Poa spp.	Tussock Grass
	+ drainage lines/poorly drained sites # not noted in area but suggested for re-planting

LANDFORM	Upper slopes
VEGETATION TYPE	Box, Red Stringybark, & Ironbark woodlands
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Quartzite, slate, phyllite, greywacke, hornfels & schist. Red & yellow podzolic (duplex) soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Mates Gully Reserve (R.L.P.B.)
TREES >8M	Acacia implexa	Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
	Eucalyptus albens	White Box
	E. blakelyi	Blakely’s Red Gum
	E. macrorhyncha	Red Stringybark
	E. polyanthemos	Red Box
	E. rossii	Scribbly Gum
	E. sideroxylon	Mugga/Red Ironbark
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia genistifolia	Spreading/Early Wattle
	A. lanigera	Woolly Wattle
	A. paradoxa	Kangaroo Thorn
	A. pycnantha	Golden Wattle
	Cassinia sifton	Dolly Bush
	Daviesia leptophylla	Slender Bitter-pea
	Dillwynia phylicoides species complex	Small-leaf Parrot-pea
	Grevillea floribunda	Seven Dwarfs Grevillea
	Indigofera australis	Austral Indigo
	Platylobium formosum	Handsome Flat-pea
	Styphelia triflora	Pink Five Corners
GROUND COVERS	Brachyloma daphnoides	Daphne Heath
	+ Carex spp.	Sedge
	Chrysocephalum apiculatum	Yellow Buttons
	Dianella porracea	Smooth Flax-lily
	D. revoluta	Spreading Flax-lily
	Dillwynia sericea	Showy Parrot-pea
	Geranium solanderi	Austral Cranesbill
	Hardenbergia violacea	Purple Coral Pea
	Hibbertia obtusifolia	Grey Guinea-flower
	Lomandra spp.	Mat-rush
	Melichrus urceolatus	Urn Heath
	Poa spp.	Tussock Grass
	Stypandra glauca	Nodding Blue-lily
	Xanthorrhoea spp.	Grass-tree
	+ drainage lines/poorly drained sites