Assignment/exercise
UniSC Plant Profile - Fabaceae, Sesbania cannabina
University of the Sunshine Coast
2024
Appears in UniSC Plant Profiles
Abstract
Sesbania cannabina is an annual shrub native to central and northern Australia (Iqbal et al., 2019). At full maturity the shrub reaches a height of 3.5m tall with up to 1200 pods produced (Iqbal et al., 2019). Seed production and flowering usually occurs in early Autumn while major development occurs in Summer (Iqbal et al., 2019). Buds are speckled brown in colour while the open flowers are bright yellow (Fagg, 2013). During the 1870s, S. cannabina was recorded by botanical and zoological collector Charles Weldon Birch as a potential source of vegetable fibre (Dowe, 2016). The plant has been suggested as potential foraging material for cattle, colonising riverbanks naturally and offering nitrogen to rehabilitated soils. However, the pods have been suggested to be highly unpalatable to herbivores due to the presence of canavanine and gum within the seeds (Iqbal et al., 2019).
Details
- Title
- UniSC Plant Profile - Fabaceae, Sesbania cannabina
- Authors
- Georgina Cooper - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Location
- Latitude: -26.717 Longitude: 153.064; Between Tennis court and Buranga Centre Garden, UniSC Sunshine Coast campus.
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date collected
- 28-Mar-2024
- Date published
- 2024
- Copyright note
- (c) The Author. Reproduced with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991093996302621
- Output Type
- Assignment/exercise; Plant Profile Sheet
- Teaching and Learning
- ENS221; Plant Diversity and Ecology
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