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Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii

Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii, the broad-leaved or paper-barked box, is a tree of northern Western Australia that typically grows 5 to 15 metres tall with papery, flaky bark. It is a large outdoor tree from a hot, dry region, not a common houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then let the soil dry between waterings; drought tolerant once mature.
Soil
Well-drained clay or heavy soils, similar to its native basalt-derived soils.
Temperature
Suited to warm, hot climates; young trees need frost protection below about -2 °C.
How easy
Moderate

About

Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii, commonly known as the broad-leaved box or the paper-barked box, is a tree that is endemic to Western Australia. It has rough, flaky bark, flower buds arranged in groups of seven and bell-shaped to urn-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

The broad-leaved box is found on rocky hillsides and plains in the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia where it grows in clay soils around basalt or dolerite.

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 fitzgeraldii 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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