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Sandstone Heath
There are two types:
1. Sandstone Heath
Where in Pittwater do you find it?
- Shallow soils in exposed sites at Ingleside
- Dendrobium
- Minkara Reserve
- Monash
- Elanora Country Club and surrounds
What plants dominate it?
- A. hispida (Dwarf Apple)
- B. ericifolia (Heath-leaved Banksia)
- Allo. Distyla (Scrub She-oak)
- Leptos. attenuatum (Flaky-barked Tea Tree)
2. Cliff Face Headland Heath
Where in Pittwater do you find it?
- Exposed sites on Hawkesbury Sandstone headlands at Bangalley
- Whale Beach Escarpment
What plants dominate it?
- Allo. distyla (Scrub She-oak)
- Westringia
- Lepto laevigatum (Coastal Tea Tree)
- Acacia sophorae (Coastal Wattle)