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Baeuerlens Gum

Eucalyptus baeuerlenii

Also called Baeuerlen's Gum

Baeuerlens Gum
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Baeuerlen's gum is a eucalyptus native to mountain areas of New South Wales, usually a mallee or small tree. It grows in open forest on shallow, rocky soils and is best suited to a sunny, well-drained site in a subtropical or mild temperate climate.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then rely mostly on rainfall and water sparingly in dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained, shallow or stony soil; tolerates poor, skeletal soils.
Temperature
Hardy to moderate frost in its native mountain range; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
CE. & SE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus baeuerlenii, commonly known as Baeuerlen's gum, is a mallee, sometimes a tree, that is endemic to New South Wales. It has smooth bark throughout, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, oblong to spindle-shaped buds in groups of three in leaf axils, white flowers and bell-shaped, cup-shaped or conical fruit. It grows in mountain areas in the south of the state.

Where it grows

Baeuerlen's gum grows in open forest in skeletal soil. It has a disjunct distribution, occurring in the Blue Mountains and on the Southern Tablelands including in the Budawang National Park, Deua National Park and Wadbilliga National Park.

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 baeuerlenii 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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