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Characteristics
Small tree, up to about 8 mm; bark dark grey, dry, flaky; leaves narrow, curved,
grey-green; flowers in balls, with an unpleasant onion-like odour. It forms
dense scrubs in the 250- to 625-mm rainfall belt, mainly on clay loams and
clays. It is most abundant in central-west Australia. Although the leaves
are eaten as windfalls, stock will rarely eat them when trees are cut down
or lopped. If the trees are burnt down, leaves are readily eaten by sheep.
Gidgee is not normally regarded as an important drought reserve because
of this unpalatability. If the scrub is cleared, the land produces a good
growth of palatable grasses and herbage plants and it is usual to sacrifice
the trees to get pasture (Everist, 1969).
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