Tooma

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:

Creeks & low country

Lower slopes

Hill country

LANDFORM	Creeks & low country
VEGETATION TYPE	River Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Light alluvial soils
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Tooma Creek at Tooma
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	A. melanoxylon	Blackwood
	Eucalyptus camaldulensis	River Red Gum
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Callistemon sieberi	River Bottlebrush
	Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla	Hairy Bursaria
	Melicytes dentatus	Tree Violet
	Kunzea ericoides	Burgan
	Leptospermum brevipes	Slender Tea-tree
	+ L. continentale	Prickly Tea-tree
	L. obovatum	River Tea-tree
	Lomatia myricoides	River Lomatia
	+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS	Bothriochloa macra	Red-leg Grass
	Carex spp.	Sedge
	Juncus spp.	Rush
	Microlaena stipoides	Weeping Grass
	Phragmites australis	Common Reed
	Poa spp.	Tussock Grass

LANDFORM	Lower slopes
VEGETATION TYPE	Blakely’s Red Gum woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Granite & gneissic granite. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Back Tooma – Tumbarumba road
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	A. melanoxylon	Blackwood
	Eucalyptus blakelyi	Blakely’s Red Gum
	E. melliodora	Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia buxifolia	Box-leaf Wattle
	A. rubida	Red-stemmed Wattle
	Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla	Hairy Bursaria
	Calytrix tetragona	Common Fringe-myrtle
	Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata	Common Cassinia
	Grevillea rosmarinifolia	Rosemary Grevillea
	Melicytes dentatus	Tree Violet
	Kunzea ericoides	Burgan
	K. parvifolia	Violet Kunzea
	+ Leptospermum continentale	Prickly Tea-tree
	+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS	Bothriochloa macra	Red-leg Grass
	Carex spp.	Sedge
	Rytidosperma spp.	Wallaby Grass
	Glycine clandestina	Twining Glycine
	Microlaena stipoides	Weeping Grass
	Poa spp.	Tussock Grass
	Themeda triandra	Kangaroo Grass

LANDFORM	Hill country
VEGETATION TYPE	Red Stringybark dry sclerophyll forest (N-NW aspect). Broad-leaved Peppermint forest (SE aspect).Robertson’s Peppermint, Candlebark, & Long-leaf Box forest (upper reaches).
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Mainly granite & gneissic granite (Maragle Mt). Also quartzite (Mt Garland). Mainly sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Maragle Mountain
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	A. implexa	Hickory Wattle/ Lightwood
	A. kettlewelliae	Buffalo Wattle
	A. melanoxylon	Blackwood
	Eucalyptus bicostata	Eurabbie
	E. bridgesiana	Apple Box
	E. camphora	Mountain Swamp Gum
	E. dalrympleana	Mountain Grey Gum
	* E. dives	Broad-leaved Peppermint
	E. goniocalyx	Long-leaf Box
	+ E. macrorhyncha	Red Stringybark
	E. mannifera	Brittle Gum
	E. nortonii	Silver Bundy
	* E. pauciflora	White Sallee/Snow Gum
	E. polyanthemos	Red Box
	E. robertsonii	Robertson’s Peppermint
	E. rubida	Candlebark
	Exocarpos cupressiformis	Native Cherry
	* mainly S-SE aspects + mainly N-NW aspects
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia buxifolia	Box-leaf Wattle
	A. rubida	Red-stemmed Wattle
	A. siculiformis	Dagger Wattle
	A. verniciflua	Varnish Wattle
	Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla	Hairy Bursaria
	Cassinia aculeata subsp. aculeata	Common Cassinia
	Cassinia longifolia	Shiny Cassinia
	Correa reflexa var. reflexa	Common Correa
	Daviesia latifolia	Hop Bitter-pea
	Dodonaea viscosa subsp.	Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
	Grevillea rosmarinifolia	Rosemary Grevillea
	Melicytes dentatus	Tree Violet
	Kunzea ericoides	Burgan
	+ Leptospermum continentale	Prickly Tea-tree
	L. grandifolium	Mountain Tea-tree
	+ soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS	Bothriochloa macra	Red-leg Grass
	Brachyloma daphnoides	Daphne Heath
	Rytidosperma spp.	Wallaby Grass
	Dianella porracea	Smooth Flax-lily
	Glycine clandestina	Twining Glycine
	Hardenbergia violacea	Purple Coral Pea
	Hibbertia obtusifolia	Grey Guinea-flower
	Melichrus urceolatus	Urn Heath
	Microlaena stipoides	Weeping Grass
	Pelargonium australe	Native Storksbill
	Rubus parvifolius	Native Raspberry
	Themeda triandra	Kangaroo Grass
	Xanthorrhoea spp.	Grass Tree