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Nambucca Ironbark

Eucalyptus fusiformis

Nambucca Ironbark
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nambucca Ironbark is a eucalypt tree native to eastern Australia, growing up to about 30 m with thick, dark grey ironbark bark. It is a forest tree rather than a garden or houseplant, and it needs full sun and well-drained soil in a frost-free subtropical climate.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained soil, tolerant of poor and sandy soils.
Temperature
Subtropical conditions; young trees need protection below about 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus fusiformis, commonly known as the grey ironbark or Nambucca ironbark is a tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has thick, blackish, "ironbark" on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and conical to pear-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

This ironbark grows in forest from about Kempsey in northern New South Wales to Mount Barney in southeastern Queensland.

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 fusiformis 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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