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Four Winged Mallet

Eucalyptus brandiana

Eucalyptus brandiana is a small mallet eucalyptus (up to about 5 m) native to a tiny area of Western Australia's Fitzgerald River National Park, grown mainly for its shiny bark, glossy leaves and winged red buds. It is a rare, narrowly endemic species and is best grown in full sun with excellent drainage.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply while establishing, then let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once mature.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty mix; it grows on spongolite hills, so avoid heavy, waterlogged soil.
Temperature
Tolerates roughly 5–35 °C; protect young plants from frost below about -3 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus brandiana is a mallet that is endemic to a small area in the Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia. It has smooth, shiny silvery bark, oblong to lance-shaped, glossy green adult leaves, single red flower buds in leaf axils, pink flowers and prominently winged fruit.

Where it grows

This mallet grows on spongolite hills and escarpments near the Fitzgerald River Inlet. Other species common in the same area include E. arborella, E. falcata, Banksia lemanniana and B. laevigata.

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 brandiana 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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