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Corymbia deserticola
Dainty Bloodwood is a small, straggly Australian tree, mallee or shrub from arid stony and sandy country in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is a hardy outdoor plant for dry, sunny sites and is not grown as a houseplant.
Corymbia deserticola is a species of straggly tree, a mallee or a shrub that is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It has rough, tessellated bark on the trunk and branches, mostly sessile, heart-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds in groups of seven on each branch of a peduncle, creamy yellow flowers and urn-shaped to shortened spherical fruit.
Subspecies deserticola grows in arid, stony or sandy sites, sometimes on mountaintops, and occurs from Mount Augustus and the Hamersley Range in Western Australia to Tennant Creek and the Barkly Tableland in the Northern Territory. Subspecies mesogeotica grows in red sand, has a more inland distribution and occurs from the Gibson Desert to the Barkly Tableland.
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 deserticola 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.
