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White-ash

Eucalyptus fraxinoides

Also called White Mountain Ash

White-ash
Photo: Poyt448, Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0

White ash (Eucalyptus fraxinoides) is a tall eucalypt of cool, moist mountain forest in south-eastern Australia, growing up to about 40 m. It is a forest tree rather than a garden or houseplant, and it is seldom grown outside its native range.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Temperature
Cool to temperate climates; native to cool mountain forests, so it is unsuited to hot, frost-free conditions.
Native range
SE. New South Wales to E. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus fraxinoides, commonly known as the white ash or white mountain ash, is a medium-sized to tall tree of mountain country and is endemic to south eastern Australia. It has rough, compacted greyish bark on the lower trunk, smooth white bark with scribbles above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and barrel-shaped or urn-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

White ash grows in cool, moist forest on mountain ranges near the coast and on the tablelands of southern New South Wales and far north-eastern Victoria where it often grows in pure stands. In New South Wales it is found south from Sassafras near Tianjara and in Victoria it is confined to the Howe Range near Mallacoota.

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 fraxinoides 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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