Where found:

• Woodlots, shelter and riparian margins.
  
• Tolerates a wide range of sites but prefers moist, reasonably well drained, fertile and slightly acidic soils, away from salt spray.
  

• Upright round-headed tree. Dense growth. Cylindrical trunk, sometimes buttressed. Requires shelter and timely pruning to produce a central leader and clear stems of at least 6 metres for timber production. Pruning should not remove more than 50% of foliage at any one time.
• Juvenile leaves are soft, pinnate and compound giving a feathery appearance. Dull green leathery adult leaves are arranged alternately along the stem. Long and narrow, up to 150 mm long and 30 mm wide.
  
• Pale yellow, fluffy, ball shaped flowers. Black seeds develop in brown, 120 mm long pods which become curled and twisted as they ripen.
  
• Grey-brown bark, scaly and furrowed. Peels off in narrow strips.
  
• Prefers high rainfall and cool winters. Becoming popular as an alternative timber species. Best if sheltered.
  
• Rotation: 40 years
  
• Wood properties: Dark coloured and slightly spotted appearance, easily worked.
  
• Used for high quality furniture, cabinet making, panelling.