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Fuchsia Mallee

Eucalyptus dolichorhyncha

Also called Fuchsia Gum, Long Budded Fuchsia Gum

Fuchsia Mallee
Photo: Ivan G. Holliday, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
CS. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus dolichorhyncha, commonly known as the fuchsia gum or fuchsia mallee, is a species of mallet that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth, pale grey over pale brown bark, lance-shaped to oblong adult leaves, pendulous, solitary, red flower buds in leaf axils, yellow flowers and winged fruit that is square in cross-section.

Where it grows

Eucalyptus dolichorhyncha has a limited range on flats in a small area along the south coast of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia north of Esperance where it grows in sandy clay or clay soils.

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 dolichorhyncha by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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