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Diehard Stringybark

Eucalyptus cameronii

Diehard Stringybark
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Diehard stringybark (Eucalyptus cameronii) is a small to medium eucalypt tree from eastern Australia, growing up to about 40 m, with rough stringy bark. It is a hardy native tree that suits large gardens and tolerates poor, shallow soils.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply while young, then rely mostly on rainfall once established.
Soil
Well-drained, poor to shallow soils; tolerates low fertility.
Temperature
Subtropical to temperate climate; tolerates mild frosts once established.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus cameronii, commonly known as the diehard stringybark is a flowering plant that is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small to medium-sized tree with rough, stringy bark from the trunk to the small branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flowers buds in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped, hemispherical or more or less spherical fruit. It mainly grows on the eastern side of the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales.

Where it grows

Diehard stringybark grows in forest on the ranges and escarpments on the eastern side of the Northern Tablelands from just north of the Queensland border as far south as the Cottan-Bimbang National Park. It mostly grows on poor, shallow soils.

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 cameronii 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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