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Narrow Leaf Mallee Ash

Eucalyptus apiculata

Also called Narrow Leaf Mountain Mallee, Narrow Leaved Mallee Ash

Narrow Leaf Mallee Ash
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Eucalyptus apiculata, the narrow-leaved mallee ash, is a multi-stemmed mallee or small tree from New South Wales, Australia, with smooth white or grey bark and narrow glossy leaves. It is a rare species in the wild, and it is not a common garden plant, so it suits native or Australian-style plantings in full sun with good drainage.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional deep watering; tolerates dry conditions once mature.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soils.
Temperature
Hardy in mild to cool temperate climates; frost tolerant; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
EC. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus apiculata, commonly known as the narrow-leaved mallee ash and is a mallee that is endemic to New South Wales. It has smooth white or greyish bark, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three to seven, white flowers and urn-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

The narrow-leaved mallee ash is a rare species with a restricted distribution between Linden and Berrima where it grows in mallee shrubland.

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 apiculata 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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