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Camfield's Stringybark

Eucalyptus camfieldii

Also called Heart Leaved Stringybark

Camfield's Stringybark
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Camfield's stringybark is a mallee or small tree native to coastal New South Wales, grown mainly for its glossy foliage and sandy-soil tolerance. Its key to growing it is full sun, excellent drainage and minimal feeding, as it is adapted to poor sandy soils.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then let the soil dry between waterings; mature plants need little supplementary water.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or poor soil; avoid rich or heavy clay.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range; frost-hardy to about -5 °C once established
How easy
Easy
Native range
CE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus camfieldii, commonly known as Camfield's stringybark or heart-leaved stringybark, is a species of mallee or small tree that is endemic to New South Wales. It has rough, fibrous and stringy bark, broadly lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of about eleven, white flowers and flattened hemispherical fruit. It grows in poor, sandy soil in the Sydney region.

Where it grows

Camfield's stringybark is restricted to poor, shallow sandy soil on ridges and some headlands between the Norah Head and Waterfall in New South Wales.

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 camfieldii 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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