DESCRIPTION: A tree with a long trunk or shrub, rather sparse branches and a rounded top. The bark is furrowed and flaky, dry and grey. The leaves are long and narrow, silvery grey with very fine parallel veins. The flowers are yellow and wattle-like. USE: It is eaten fairly readily by sheep, but is reported to cause impaction after about six weeks of continuous feeding. GROWING PERIOD: Perennial. COMMON NAMES: Broad-leaf Nealie, Boree. FURTHER INF: It is common in north-west corner of New South Wales, to the north-west of the Paroo River and Menindee, and with isolated occurrences in the north-western plains, also south-west, central and north-eastern Queensland and extends southward along the Grey Range, mainly on pebbly clay soils on the edges of the Mitchell grass country. Grows in mulga and Casuarina open woodlands on sand hills, or as scattered trees forming an open shrubland, and along water courses on gibber plains.
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