Species Selection Guides
Selection is a matter of matching species characteristics to the prevailing site conditions and what you want the plants to do.
What to consider
Characteristics of the species
- Natural distribution, growth traits, timber properties
- See Individual species information
Site climate and soil conditions
- Climate information from neighbours or the Bureau of Meteorology; consider extreme weather as much as averages
- Test soil or search the Soil and Land Survey Directory for maps; consider salinity and other degradation processes
What you want the forest to provide
- For example wildlife habitat, timber, aesthetics, stock shelter, reduced land degradation
- See Planning and design
Farm forestry - selecting the right tree and Farm Forestry - Overview to Regional Species List provide more detail.
Species lists
- FloraBank: Species Navigator – an interactive tool that produces a short list of species according to the parameters that you set.
- Dryland Area Species
- Farm Forestry Species for South West Victoria
- Farm Forestry Species for the Cardinia Shire
- Gippsland Farm Forestry Species
- Species for Irrigated Farm Forestry in the Southern Murray Darling Basin
- Farm Forestry Species for North East Victoria
- Farm Forestry Species for the Corangamite Region
- Revegetation in the Shepparton Irrigation Region 1: Local trees & shrubs
- Revegetation in the Shepparton Irrigation Region 2: Irrigation & non-local species
- Revegetation in the Shepparton Irrigation Region 3: Wetlands
- Revegetation in the Shepparton Irrigation Region 4: Grasses and Groundcovers
- Trees & Shrubs for South West Victoria
- Local native plant lists – look under Restoration and revegetation guides
