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Northern Salmon Gum

Eucalyptus bigalerita

Northern Salmon Gum
Photo: Casliber, CC BY-SA 3.0

Northern salmon gum is a eucalyptus tree native to northern Australia, growing 6 to 18 m and found along watercourses and floodplains. It is easily grown from seed and suits warm, frost-free, seasonally dry climates.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry between deep waterings; tolerates seasonal wet and dry cycles.
Soil
Well-drained sandy loam or alluvial soil.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
N. Western Australia to Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Eucalyptus bigalerita, commonly known as the northern salmon gum, Adelaide River white gum, or poplar gum is a species of tree that is endemic to north-western Australia. It has smooth bark, large triangular to more or less round adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and conical to hemispherical fruit.

How to grow it

The plant is easily propagated from seed which germinates readily.

Where it grows

The northern salmon gum is found in the north of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. In Western Australia it occurs along watercourses and low-lying flats in the Kimberley region where it grows in alluvium or sandy soils. In the Northern Territory it is found across the Top End, including the Tiwi Islands, the Cobourg Peninsula and as far south as Daly Waters.

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 bigalerita 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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