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Melville Island Bloodwood

Corymbia nesophila

Melville Island Bloodwood
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Melville Island bloodwood is a tree native to tropical northern Australia, growing 7 to 30 metres tall with rough, tessellated bark. It is a native Australian tree rather than a common garden plant, grown mainly in its natural range and in large-scale planting.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely on the seasonal wet and dry pattern typical of tropical savanna.
Soil
Sandy or sandy-loam soils, including basalt or laterite derived soils with good drainage.
Temperature
Tropical, suited to warm conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Corymbia nesophila, commonly known as Melville Island bloodwood, is a species of tree that is endemic to northern Australia. It has rough, tessellated bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and urn-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Corymbia nesophila has a disjunct distribution throughout the tropical north of Australia and is common in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia, the top end and islands off the coast of the Northern Territory and on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland. It grows on basalt or laterite on the lower slopes and flat areas with sandy or sandy-loam soils.

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 nesophila 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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