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Balladonia Mallee

Eucalyptus balladoniensis

Balladonia Mallee
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Balladonia mallee is a multi-stemmed eucalypt from south-western Australia that grows as a mallee shrub or small tree. It is grown mainly for its ornamental form and pale yellow flowers, and it needs full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub, Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, allowing the soil to dry between waterings; established plants need little supplementary water.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil, including calcareous sandy loam.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range; frost-hardy for mild frosts and suited to a subtropical to Mediterranean climate.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus balladoniensis, commonly known as the Balladonia mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to an area in the south of Western Australia. It has rough bark on the lower half of its stems, smooth brownish bark above, lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, pale yellow flowers and hemispherical to more or less spherical fruit.

Where it grows

Balladonia mallee grows in dry woodland, often on sandy rises or calcareous sandy loam. Subspecies balladoniensis has a wide distribution south of the Eyre Highway but subspecies sedens only occurs between Balladonia and Zanthus.

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 balladoniensis 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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