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Howatharra Mallee

Eucalyptus blaxellii

Howatharra Mallee
Photo: Peter Crowcroft, CC BY 4.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eucalyptus blaxellii, commonly known as the Howatharra mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth bark, linear to narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped to conical fruit.

Where it grows

The Howatharra mallee is found on rocky hillsides and creek flats in the Wheatbelt near Morawa and in the Mid West region between Northampton and Geraldton in the Moresby Range where it grows in sandy-clay soils. It is an emergent in heath and occurs with Eucalyptus loxophleba, Eucalyptus stowardii, Allocasuarina campestris, Melaleuca megacephala, Gastrolobium spinosum and various species of Acacia.

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 blaxellii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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