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Narrow Leaved Bloodwood

Corymbia lenziana

Corymbia lenziana is a straggly, sometimes mallee-like small tree from the Myrtle family, native to dry sandplains and dunes in inland Western Australia. It is a wild desert species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for eucalypt-type bloodwoods.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings once established.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient ground.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry conditions; protect young plants from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Corymbia lenziana, commonly known as narrow-leaved bloodwood, is a species of small tree that is endemic to Western Australia. It has rough, tessellated bark on the trunk and branches, narrow lance-shaped to linear leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and shortened spherical fruit.

Where it grows

Corymbia lenziana grows in mulga on sandplain and on low rises in desert or semi-desert sand dunes from inland of Shark Bay to east of Wiluna in the Carnarvon, Central Ranges, Gascoyne and Murchison biogeographic 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 lenziana 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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