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Eucalyptus brachyphylla

Eucalyptus brachyphylla
Photo: Ivan G. Holliday, CC BY 3.0 au

Eucalyptus brachyphylla is a mallee or small tree, typically about 4 m tall, native to a small area of Western Australia near Kalgoorlie. It is a eucalypt that is grown mainly in arid-climate gardens and as a native plant, and it needs full sun and good drainage.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry between waterings; established plants tolerate drought.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, mineral soils.
Temperature
15–35 °C; tolerates frost down to about -5 °C once established, and needs protection from cold, wet conditions.
How easy
Moderate

About

Eucalyptus × brachyphylla is a mallee or small tree that is endemic to a small area in Western Australia. It has rough bark near the base of the trunk, smooth greyish bark above, egg-shaped to elliptic adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven in leaf axils, white flowers and conical fruit.

Where it grows

This eucalypt is only known from near Kalgoorlie, Cardunia Rock north of Karonie and Widgiemooltha where it usually grows near granite outcrops in undulating country.

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 × brachyphylla 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.

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