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Creswick Apple Box

Eucalyptus corticosa

Eucalyptus corticosa, Creswick apple-box, is a small eucalypt tree native to a very small area of south-eastern New South Wales, Australia, where it grows in woodland on shallow sandstone soils. Grown outside its native range it is rare in cultivation, so general care advice below is drawn from related eucalypts.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply when the top soil is dry, and allow it to dry out between waterings once established.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, shallow soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established, protect young plants below -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus corticosa, also known as Creswick apple-box or Olinda box is a species of small tree that is endemic to a small area in south-eastern New South Wales in Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, dull green, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, oval flower buds arranged in groups of seven in leaf axils and cup-shaped or hemispherical fruit.

Where it grows

Creswick apple-box grows in woodland in shallow soil over sandstone but is only known from the Rylstone area 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 corticosa 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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