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New England Blackbutt

Eucalyptus campanulata

Also called New England Ash, Gum Topped Peppermint

New England Blackbutt
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0

New England Blackbutt is a tall eucalyptus tree native to eastern Australia, growing up to 25 m and occasionally 45 m. It is a large landscape tree that needs space, full sun and well-drained soil, and it is not a houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during establishment and during dry spells; mature trees are fairly drought tolerant.
Soil
Fertile, well-drained soil; tolerates a range of soil types.
Temperature
Subtropical to cool temperate climates; tolerates light frost once established, protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus campanulata, commonly known as the New England blackbutt, gum-topped peppermint or New England ash, is a tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, finely fibrous greyish bark on the trunk and larger branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of between eleven and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped to conical fruit.

Where it grows

New England blackbutt is widespread and common on fertile soils in wetter areas between south-east Queensland and the southern end of Barrington Tops in New South Wales, especially on the eastern side of the Northern Tablelands.

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 campanulata 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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