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Cleland's Blackbutt

Eucalyptus clelandiorum

Cleland's Blackbutt
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Cleland's Blackbutt is a small eucalyptus tree native to dry woodland in inland Western Australia, reaching about 10 m. It is a hardy outdoor tree that needs full sun, good drainage and very little water once established.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established trees need little or no extra water.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, alkaline soils.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates heat and light frost, protect young plants below -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eucalyptus clelandiorum, commonly known as Cleland's blackbutt is a species of mallet that is endemic to the South West region of Western Australia. It has hard, black, crumbly bark on the lower half of its trunk, smooth bark above, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, nine or eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Eucalyptus clelandiorum mostly grows in open woodland from east of Cue to near Lake Biddy in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison and Yalgoo biogeographic regions of Western Australia.

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 clelandiorum 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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