Paraserianthes lophantha - Cape Wattle Tubestock | Fodder Tree Seedling

Paraserianthes lophantha – Cape Wattle

Description:
A fast-growing Australian native shrub or small tree with attractive bipinnate, fern-like foliage and distinctive cream to pale yellow cylindrical flower spikes that appear through winter and spring. The foliage can provide useful supplementary fodder for livestock, while the flowers provide food for bees and other pollinators. Dense growth offers shelter for wildlife, and its nitrogen-fixing roots make it useful for screening, windbreaks, revegetation, erosion control, and soil improvement.

🌳 Height:
5–12 m

🌿 Width:
3–8 m spread

🔧 Uses:

• Livestock fodder and supplementary browse

• Bee forage and pollinator habitat

• Screening and hedging

• Windbreaks and shelterbelts

• Wildlife habitat and shelter

• Revegetation and soil improvement

• Erosion and slope stabilisation

• Fast-growing feature or shade tree

🌱 Ideal growing conditions:

• Well-drained sandy, loamy, or gravelly soils

• Full sun to part shade

• Moderately fertile soils

• Reliable moisture during establishment

💪 Tolerates:

• Poor soils

• Wind and exposed conditions

• Dry periods once established

• Sandy and gravelly soils

• Mild coastal conditions

• Light to moderate frost

• Some soil disturbance

💧 Drought hardy:
Moderate to high — reasonably drought tolerant once established but performs best with some moisture

❄️ Frost tolerant:
Moderate

🧂 Salt tolerant:
Low to moderate