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Black Peppermint

Eucalyptus amygdalina

Also called Brown Peppermint, Giant Eucalypt, Peppermint Tree, White Peppermint, Black Peppermint Gum

Black Peppermint
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Black peppermint is a tall eucalypt tree native to Tasmania, grown in parks and large gardens rather than as a houseplant. It needs full sun and a dry, well-drained site, and it grows large, so plant it where it has space.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young trees regularly until established, then rely mostly on rain; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained soil, tolerant of poor or sandy soils.
Temperature
Cool temperate climates; tolerates frost well once established.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Tasmania
Climate
temperate

About

Eucalyptus amygdalina, commonly known as black peppermint, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to Tasmania. It is a small to medium-sized tree with rough bark on park of the trunk, smooth grey to brown bark above, lance-shaped to linear adult leaves, oval to club-shaped flower buds, white flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit.

Where it grows

Black peppermint is endemic to Tasmania where it is widespread in the drier, north-eastern side of the island, from coastal areas extending well inland to the edges of plateaux where it is part of dry eucalypt forest communities.

Other Eucalyptus plants

Eucalyptus abdita · Badgingarra Box · Wattle Leaved Peppermint · Powder Bark Wandoo · Woolbernup Mallee · White-mahogany · Lakefield Coolibah · Wellstead Mallee · Eucalyptus aenea · Welcome Hill Gum · Blue-leaf stringybark · Black Gum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus amygdalina 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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