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Broad Leaved White Mahogany

Eucalyptus carnea

Also called Thick Leaved Mahogany

Broad Leaved White Mahogany
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Eucalyptus carnea, the thick-leaved or broad-leaved white mahogany, is a large forest tree from eastern Australia that grows to 25 to 30 metres. It is a tall eucalypt best suited to large gardens or planting in its native subtropical climate, and is rarely grown as a houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young trees regularly until established, then rely mostly on rainfall, as it is adapted to dry spells in shallow soils.
Soil
Well-drained, shallow or sandy to loamy soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
Subtropical; roughly 10 to 35 °C; protect young trees from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus carnea, known as the thick-leaved mahogany or broad-leaved white mahogany, is a species of tree that is endemic to coastal areas of eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy bark from the trunk to the thinnest branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit.

Where it grows

Thick-leaved mahogany grows in forest in shallow soil between Gympie in Queensland and the Hunter River 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 carnea 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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