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Clarkson's Bloodwood

Corymbia clarksoniana

Clarkson's Bloodwood
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0

Clarkson's bloodwood is a medium-sized Australian eucalypt-relative tree, growing to about 20 m, native to Queensland and northern New South Wales. It is grown as a shade and street tree in warm dry climates, and it is a species rarely grown as a houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply while establishing, then rely on rainfall; drought tolerant once mature.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or sandy loam soils; tolerates poor, skeletal soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; tolerates frost only lightly once established
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Corymbia clarksoniana, commonly known as Clarkson's bloodwood or grey bloodwood, is a species of medium-sized tree that is native to Queensland and northern New South Wales. It has rough, tessellated greyish to brownish bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped, glossy green leaves that are paler on the lower surface, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and urn-shaped to barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

The tree is endemic to eastern parts of Queensland and far northern parts of New South Wales. The medium-sized bloodwood is found on inland plains and part of grassy woodlands and forests communities growing in sand and sandy loam soils but can be found in skeletal soils on ridges and hill tops.

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 clarksoniana 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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