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Hamersley Bloodwood

Corymbia hamersleyana

Hamersley Bloodwood is a small tree or mallee from the rocky, arid Pilbara region of north-western Western Australia, grown mainly as a native landscape tree. It is tough and drought tolerant, and needs full sun, good drainage and very little water once established.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall once established.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or rocky soil; tolerates shallow, skeletal soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot conditions well; frost-sensitive when young, so protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
NW. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Corymbia hamersleyana is a species of small tree or mallee that is endemic to the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It has rough, flaky bark on part or all of the trunk, smooth cream-coloured bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flowers buds in groups of seven or nine, creamy white flowers and urn-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Corymbia hamersleyana grows in shallow and skeletal soils on rocky slopes and hillsides throughout the Pilbara and North West Cape regions of Western Australia.

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 hamersleyana 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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