Coastal Shale Sandstone Forest
Sydney Foreshore Shale Forest is a tall open eucalypt forest with a sparse shrub layer and a dense cover of ground covers, vines and climbers. It occurs on shale-enriched sandstone, on crests and slopes near waterways. Sydney Foreshores Shale Forest occurs at elevations between 6 to 20 metres above sea level.
The only patch of this vegetation community in Ryde can be found at Memorial Park, Meadowbank.
Native species list
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Common Name
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Botanical Name
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Approx. Height
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Trees
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Smooth-Bark Apple
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Angophora costata
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15-25m
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Grey Gum
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Eucalyptus punctata
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20-30m
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Forest Red Gum
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Eucalyptus tereticornis
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30-40m
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Small Trees
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Black She-Oak
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Allocasuarina littoralis
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5-15m
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Black Wattle
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Acacia mearnsii
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3-10m
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Mock Olive
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Notelaea longifolia
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3-6m
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Corkwood
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Duboisia myoporoides
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Myrsine
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Myrsine variabilis
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| Shrubs |
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| Tick Bush |
Kunzea ambigua |
1-3m |
| Coffee Bush |
Breynia oblongifolia |
1-2m |
| Prickly Heath |
Leucopogon juniperinus |
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| Ground Covers |
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Three-awn Speargrass
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Aristida vagans
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Kidney Herb
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Dichondra repens
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Right-angle Grass
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Entolasia stricta
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Prickly Heath
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Leucopogon juniperinus
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Weeping Grass
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Microlaena stipoides var. stipoides
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White Root
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Pratia purpurascens
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Rough Saw-sedge
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Gahnia aspera
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Variable Sword-sedge
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Lepidosperma laterale
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Spiny Headed Mat Rush
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Lomandra longifolia
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Slender-leaf Basket Grass
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Oplismenus imbecillis
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Small Poranthera
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Poranthera microphylla
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Creeping Speedwell
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Veronica plebeia
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Small Flower Finger Grass
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Digitaria parviflora
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Brown’s Love Grass
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Eragrostis brownii
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Stinking Pennwort
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Hydrocotyle laxiflora
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Blady Grass
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Imperata cylindrica var. major
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Basket Grass
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Oplismenus aemulus
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Yellow Wood-sorrel
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Oxalis perennans
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Forest Hedgehog Grass
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Echinopogon ovatus
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Bordered Panic
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Entolasia marginata
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Wattle Mat Rush
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Lomandra filiformis
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Slender Panic
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Paspalidium distans
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Native Violet
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Viola hederacea
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Vines and Climbers
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Love Creeper
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Glycine microphylla
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Scrambling Lily
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Geitonoplesium cymosum
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Apple Dumplings
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Billardiera scandens
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Golden Guinea Flower
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Hibbertia scandens
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Location in City of Ryde
