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Barber's Gum

Eucalyptus barberi

Barber's Gum
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Eucalyptus barberi, Barber's gum, is a eucalypt from eastern Tasmania that grows as a tree or mallee with smooth, greyish bark. It is a native species of dry forest rather than a commonly grown garden plant, and it is not a houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then rely on rain; it tolerates dry spells once mature.
Soil
Well-drained soil; tolerates poor, rocky ground.
Temperature
Cool temperate; tolerates frost, cold limit not well documented.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Tasmania
Climate
temperate

About

Eucalyptus barberi, commonly known as Barber's gum, is a tree or mallee that is endemic to Tasmania. It has mostly smooth, greyish bark, elliptic to lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, diamond-shaped or club-shaped buds in groups of seven in leaf axils, white flowers and cup-shaped, cylindrical or conical fruit.

Where it grows

Barber's gum grows in dry forest on the edges of dolerite outcrops and on low hills and sloping ground in eastern Tasmania. It is conserved in the Douglas Apsley 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 barberi 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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