Waterhousea Green Avenue

The nursery's sheet is the one reference read for this selection, and these are its claims: tolerant of most soils in a full sun to part shade position, able to tolerate occasional wet conditions, and responsive to pruning. It gives no drought or frost rating, and no other reference read for this page does. Among its tags the sheet carries the single word Medium without saying what it measures, so this page gives no growth rate.

For the species the New South Wales flora gives habitat rather than horticulture: riverine rainforest, often lining stream banks, north from the Hunter Valley. That text describes the species, not this selection.

Myrtle rust. The tree is in the Myrtaceae, the family the Australian Government's biosecurity page says myrtle rust infects; the page names lilly pillies among that family's plants and names no species or selection.

Establishment. Watering through the first two summers, mulch kept clear of the trunk and stakes only on windy sites are covered in the HortOS tree planting guide; the sheet says nothing about this selection's own needs beyond the lines above.

The nursery sheet lists Green Avenue for avenues, as a stand-alone feature tree, for hedging and informal screening, for group planting, as a shade tree and as a specimen, and calls it bird attracting; it says the selection suits a buyer wanting a taller screen than the nursery's Whisper selection. The sheet gives a mature width of 7 m and no planting density for a screen. For an avenue the HortOS tree planting guide says to space trees for the mature canopy, not the size on the day. The straight species is listed under its common name, weeping lilly pilly, and the HortOS guides that list the species name the species, not this selection.

The nursery's sheet writes the name Waterhousea floribunda 'Green Avenue' and adds syn. Syzygium after it; the HortOS listing carries the code BWNGRE beside the name, and nothing read says what that code is, so match the words Green Avenue when comparing growers. The table above shows the sizes listed. For an avenue order the guide to specifying and procuring trees gives the clause to write, from calliper and clear stem to the inspection right, and the plant quality guide covers roots, stem, hardening off and pests. Stock crossing a state border travels under the state and territory biosecurity rules. The gap to know: the sheet gives no drought or frost rating, and no other reference read describes this selection.