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Big Fruited Bloodwood

Corymbia sphaerica

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
C. Northern Territory
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Corymbia sphaerica, commonly known as big-fruited bloodwood, is a species of tree, sometimes a mallee or shrub, that is endemic to a small area in the Northern Territory of Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, a crown of heart-shaped to lance-shaped juvenile leaves, flower buds in groups of three and shortened spherical fruit.

Where it grows

Corymbia sphaerica grows in scrubland on red sandy soil on rises, and is found in the central Northern Territory from the eastern edge of the Tanami Desert to the Barrow Creek area. It occurs in the |Burt River, Davenport Murchison Ranges, Sturt Plateau and Tanami biogeographic regions bioregions.

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 sphaerica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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