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Kimberley Bloodwood

Corymbia arenaria

Kimberley Bloodwood
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Kimberley Bloodwood (Corymbia arenaria) is a small tree native to the northern Kimberley of Western Australia, growing on sandy soils over sandstone. It is a wild species of hot, seasonally dry tropical country and is rarely grown outside its native region.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established, and allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; tolerates poor, shallow sandy soils over rock.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Corymbia arenaria, commonly known as bundah bundah or black bloodwood, is a species of tree that is endemic to the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flower and spherical urn-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Corymbia arenaria is found along the north coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia on plateaus, ridges and at the bases of cliffs where it grows in shallow sandy soils over sandstone.

Other Corymbia plants

Scraggy Bloodwood · Range Bloodwood · Corymbia aparrerinja · Corymbia arafurica · Katherine Gorge Bloodwood · Corymbia aspera · Corymbia aureola · Corymbia bella · Corymbia blakei · Glossy Leaved Bloodwood · Yellow Bloodwood · Corymbia brachycarpa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Corymbia arenaria by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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