Rhagodia Spinescens - Creeping Saltbush Tubestock | Native Shrub Seedling

Rhagodia spinescens – Creeping Saltbush

Description:
A hardy Australian native shrub with dense, spreading growth and attractive grey-green to silvery foliage, often developing small red to purple berries after flowering. Highly adapted to dry and coastal conditions, it provides valuable shelter and food for wildlife while offering excellent cover and habitat for small birds and insects. Its dense form and tolerance of difficult soils make it well suited to screening, windbreaks, revegetation, erosion control, and low-maintenance native landscaping. The foliage can also provide supplementary browse for livestock.

🌳 Height:
1–3 m

🌿 Width:
1.5–4 m spread

🔧 Uses:

• Livestock browse and supplementary fodder

• Wildlife habitat and shelter

• Screening and low hedging

• Windbreaks and shelter planting

• Coastal and salt-tolerant landscaping

• Revegetation and habitat restoration

• Erosion and soil stabilisation

• Dryland and low-maintenance landscaping

🌱 Ideal growing conditions:

• Well-drained sandy, loamy, or gravelly soils

• Full sun to part shade

• Low to moderately fertile soils

• Dry or moderately moist conditions

• Coastal or exposed sites

💪 Tolerates:

• Poor and nutrient-poor soils

• Drought and extended dry periods

• Strong wind

• Coastal exposure and salt spray

• Sandy and gravelly soils

• Heat

• Moderate frost

• Alkaline or saline soils

💧 Drought hardy:
Very high — highly drought tolerant once established and well suited to dry conditions

❄️ Frost tolerant:
Moderate

🧂 Salt tolerant:
Very high