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Sandhill Bloodwood

Corymbia chippendalei

Sandhill Bloodwood
Photo: John R. Connors, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
C. & E. Western Australia, SW. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Corymbia chippendalei, commonly known as sand-dune bloodwood or sandhill bloodwood, is a species of small tree or a mallee that is endemic to desert country in central Australia. It has rough bark on part or all of the trunk, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and shortened spherical fruit.

Where it grows

Corymbia chippendalei usually grows on the crest of sand dunes in the Great Sandy Desert and central ranges of far eastern Western Australia, and in the south-west of the Northern Territory.

Other Corymbia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Corymbia chippendalei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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