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Eucalyptus filiformis

Eucalyptus filiformis
Photo: Ethmostigmus, CC BY-SA 4.0

Eucalyptus filiformis is a small mallee eucalypt native to a tiny area on one mountain in Victoria, Australia, growing to about 6 m. It is a rare, localised species best suited to cool, dry, open conditions similar to its native hillside.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while young, then allow the soil to dry out between waterings; established plants tolerate dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained, shallow, red-brown or loamy soil; avoid waterlogging.
Temperature
5–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect from severe frost while young.
How easy
Hard

About

Eucalyptus filiformis is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area on the side of a mountain in Victoria, Australia. It has rough fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk, smooth bark above, narrow lance-shaped to narrow elliptical adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

This mallee grows in shallow red soils and is only known from private property on the southern side of Mt Jeffcott.

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 filiformis 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.

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