Reference Community: Coastal Foreshores Apple Forest
Equilibrium acknowledges that these reference community sites are on Garigal Land. We pay our respects.
Site: Alleyne Avenue Lookout Reserve, North Narrabeen
This site represents a highly disturbed Coastal Apple Foreshores Forest. Because of its historical distribution across flatter topographies, this vegetation community has been heavily cleared and developed on, so very little extant forest remains locally. Because of this, the species list is somewhat limited, though many keystone species are still represented.
Soil landscape: Watagan - Narrow, convex crests and ridges, steep colluvial sideslopes, occasional sandstone boulders and benches.
Note, however that this vegetation community also occurs on Erina soil landscape - Undulating to rolling rises and low hills on fine-grained sandstones and claystones of the Narrabeen Group.
Aspect: East-facing, though this vegetation community occurs across all aspects
Vegetation type: Dry forest, sometimes with mesic under-storey in less exposed sites
Flora List:
Recorded as Occurring
Canopy
Allocasuarina littoralis (Black She-oak)
Allocasuarina torulosa (Forest Oak)
Angophora costata (Smooth-barked Apple)
Banksia integrifolia (Coast Banksia)
Eucalyptus botryoides (Bangalay)
Eucalyptus paniculata (Grey Ironbark)
Eucalyptus umbra (Broad-leaved White Mahogany)
Mid-storey
Acacia implexa (Hickory Wattle)
Acacia linifolia (Flax-leaf Wattle)
Acacia sophorae (Coast Wattle)
Breynia oblongifolia (Coffee Bush)
Clerodendrum tomentosum (Hairy Clerodendrum)
Elaeocarpus reticulatus (Blueberry Ash)
Exocarpos cupressiformis (Cherry Ballart)
Homalanthus populifolius (Bleeding Heart)
Leucopogon affinis (Lance-leaved Beard-heath)
Monotoca elliptica (Tree Broom Heath)
Myrsine variabilis (Variable Muttonwood)
Notelaea longifolia (Large Mock-olive)
Persoonia linearis (Narrow-leaved Geebung)
Pittosporum undulatum (Sweet Pittosporum)
Polyscias sambucifolia (Elderberry Panax)
Vines and Scramblers
Cassytha glabella (Devil's Twine)
Eustrephus latifolius (Wombat Berry)
Geitonoplesium cymosum (Scrambling Lily)
Glycine tabacina (Twining Glycine)
Hardenbergia violacea (Happy Wanderer)
Pandorea jasminoides (Bower Vine)
Pandorea pandorana (Wonga Vine)
Parsonsia straminea (Native Silkpod)
Sarcopetalum harveyanum (Velvet Vine)
Smilax australis (Austral Sarsaparilla)
Smilax glyciphylla (Sweet Sarsaparilla)
Tylophora barbata (Bearded Tylophora)
Groundcover (Herbs, Grasses, and Sedges)
Caesia parviflora (Pale Grass-lily)
Cymbopogon refractus (Barbed Wire Grass)
Dianella caerulea (Blue Flax-lily)
Entolasia marginata (Bordered Panic)
Entolasia stricta (Erect Panic)
Goodenia ovata (Hop Goodenia)
Hibbertia dentata (Trailing Guinea Flower)
Hibbertia empetrifolia (Showy Guinea Flower)
Lepidosperma laterale (Broad-leaf Rapier-sedge)
Lomandra filiformis (Wattle Mat-rush)
Lomandra longifolia (Spiny-headed Mat-rush)
Lomandra multiflora (Many-flowered Mat-rush)
Opercularia aspera (Rough Stinkweed)
Oxalis perennans (Grassland Wood-sorrel)
Platysace lanceolata (Shrubby Platysace)
Poa affinis (Slender Tussock-grass)
Podolobium ilicifolium (Mountain Holly-pea)
Pseuderanthemum variabile (Pastel Flower)
Senecio vagus (Climbing Groundsel)
Sichondra repens (Kidney Weed)
Themeda triandra (Kangaroo Grass)
Veronica plebeia (Trailing Speedwell)
Xanthorrhoea arborea (Grass Tree)
Xanthorrhoea macronema (Small Grass-tree)
Ferns, Cycads and Conifers
Adiantum aethiopicum (Common Maidenhair)
Calochlaena dubia (Soft Bracken)
Macrozamia communis (Burrawang)
Pteridium esculentum (Bracken Fern)
Expected to Occur
Canopy
Eucalyptus piperita (Sydney Peppermint)
Mid-storey
Acacia longifolia subsp. longifolia (Sydney Golden Wattle)
Acacia suaveolens (Sweet Wattle)
Acacia ulicifolia (Hedge Wattle)
Angophora floribunda (Rough-barked Apple)
Banksia spinulosa (Hairpin Banksia)
Bursaria spinosa (Blackthorn)
Ceratopetalum gummiferum (NSW Christmas Bush)
Correa reflexa var. reflexa (Native Fuchsia)
Endiandra sieberi (Corkwood)
Ozothamnus diosmifolius (Rice Flower)
Pimelea linifolia (Rice Flower)
Pultenaea daphnoides (Large-leaf Bush-pea)
Pultenaea flexilis (Graceful Bush Pea)
Syzygium oleosum (Blue Lilly Pilly)
Wikstroemia indica (Tie Bush)
Zieria smithii (Sandfly Zieria)
Vines and Scramblers
Billardiera scandens (Apple Berry)
Smilax glyciphylla (Sweet Sarsaparilla)
Groundcover (Herbs, Grasses, and Sedges)
Actinotus helianthi (Flannel Flower)
Aotus ericoides (Common Aotus)
Microlaena stipoides (Weeping Meadow Grass)
Phyllanthus hirtellus (Thyme Spurge)
Platylobium formosum (Handsome Flat-pea)
Pomaderris intermedia (Intermediate Pomaderris)
Thysanotus tuberosus (Fringed Lily)
Woollsia pungens (Snow Heath)
Xanthosia pilosa (Soft Xanthosia)
Xanthosia tridenata (Rock Xanthosia)
Hop Goodenia (Goodenia ovata) in flower
The red new growth of False Sarsaparilla (Smilax glyciphylla) emerging
A Wombat Berry (Eustrephus latifolius) twines around a nearby branch and flowers
Bearded Tylophora (Tylophora barbata) produces a waxy, maroon flower
Maiden Hair Fern (Adiantum aethiopicum) is dotted through the parts of the forest where water has collected in the ground
Soft Bracken (Calochlaena dubia) also coats parts of the forest floor
A Mock Olive (Notolaea longifolia) next to a Mat Rush (Lomandra longifolia)
The brilliantly igneous bark of the Coastal Apple (Angophora costata) melts over a sandstone rock
Tussock Grass (Poa affinis) in flower
Looking upward into the twisting canopy
A Burrawang (Macrozamia communis) supporting ferns and climbers
Tree Broom Heath (Monotoca elliptica) overhanging the track
A sandstone forest vegetation community
A big Coastal Apple (Angophora costata) rises through the Mat Rush (Lomandra longifolia)