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Woodline Mallee

Eucalyptus cylindrocarpa

Woodline Mallee
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Woodline mallee is a multi-stemmed mallee eucalypt from southwest Western Australia, typically 3–10 m tall, grown for its glossy foliage and hardiness in dry, sandy conditions. Like most eucalypts it does best in full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, sandy soils.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates light frost once established
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. & S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus cylindrocarpa, commonly known as the woodline mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has mostly smooth bark, sometimes with loose fibrous or flaky bark near the base of the trunk, linear to lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, nine or eleven and cylindrical to barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Woodline mallee is found on sandplains and low dunes mainly between Kellerberrin and Zanthus where it grows in shrubland and woodland in red clayey sand or sandy soils. It is found in the south western Goldfields-Esperance and south east Wheatbelt 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 cylindrocarpa 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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