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Corymbia aureola

Corymbia aureola
Photo: Brooker & Kleinig, CC BY 4.0

Corymbia aureola, known as yellowjacket or yellow bloodwood, is a eucalypt-like tree native to central Queensland, growing up to about 15 m. It suits full sun and very well-drained, sandy or stony soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply while young, then let the soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates drought once established.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor, skeletal soils.
Temperature
Frost-tender when young; suited to warm climates, protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Corymbia aureola, commonly known as yellowjacket or yellow bloodwood, is a tree specie endemic to Queensland. It has rough bark on the trunk and large branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves. Its flower buds in groups of seven and barrel-shaped, urn-shaped or cylindrical fruit.

Where it grows

Corymbia aureola grows in skeletal soils on sandstone ridges, often with Acacia shirleyi, E. trachyphloia and E. papuana. It is only known from the Cherwell Range south of Moranbah, the Carborough Range west of Nebo and the Yellowjacket Ridge near Blackwater in central Queensland.

Other Corymbia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Corymbia aureola 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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