Blackwood

Acacia melanoxylon

Fast shelter now, a genuinely valuable timber tree in sixty years. A good thing to plant for someone else.

Sizes, same plant, different age. Mix as many as you like.

Ten or more of any one size drops to trade price automatically.

Tube 1 yr 25–40 cm now
2700 ready $5.40

140mm 2 yr 50–80 cm now
900 ready $14.40

200mm 3 yr 1–1.4 m now
252 ready $25.95

Flat $100 freight in Tasmania · free over $250 · free pick-up at the gate

Age: 1 yr
Height now: 25–40 cm
Container: Forestry tube
Mature height: 15 m
Mature width: 8 m
Position: Full sun to part shade
Habit: Evergreen
Growth rate: Fast
Origin: Australian native

Good for

Shade Birds & bees

What it's like

Blackwood is the workhorse of Tasmanian revegetation — it grows quickly, fixes nitrogen, shelters slower species while they get going, and produces one of the finest cabinet timbers in the world. Plant it as part of a mix rather than on its own. Happy in wet gullies and on dry slopes alike.

Getting it established

Plant into a mixed shelter belt at 2–3 m spacing. Guards recommended if you have browsers.

Potted stock travels upright in a purpose-built carton with the rootball wrapped. Bare-root trees are lifted the week they ship, roots packed in damp shavings. Either way, get it in the ground within a week of arrival.

You've got twelve months. If it was planted the way we suggested and it hasn't come away, send us a photo and we'll replace it on the next run.

Ten or more of one line gets trade pricing without an account. Tell us the site and we'll check the spacing with you before you order.

Goes with

Plant it with.

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Local provenance

Tube 1 yr $8.90

140mm 2 yr $22.95

200mm 3 yr $42.95

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From $8.90 Forestry tube · 1 yr 8 m tall

Bird food

Tube 1 yr $6.90

140mm 2 yr $17.90

200mm 3 yr $32.95

Silver Banksia

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From $6.90 Forestry tube · 1 yr 4 m tall

Best seller

200mm 2 yr $36.95

45L 4 yr $130.00

100L 6 yr $275.00

Ornamental Pear 'Chanticleer'

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From $36.95 200 mm pot · 2 yr 9 m tall

200mm 2 yr $25.95

45L 4 yr $87.95

100L 6 yr $190.00

Silver Birch

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From $25.95 200 mm pot · 2 yr 12 m tall