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Tingiringi gum

Eucalyptus glaucescens

Also called Tingaringy Gum

Tingiringi gum
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Tingiringi gum (Eucalyptus glaucescens) is a eucalyptus tree or mallee from the high country of south-eastern Australia, with smooth bark and dull grey-green foliage. It tolerates cold and is best grown in a sunny, open spot with well-drained soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fairly poor soil; tolerates granite-derived soils.
Temperature
Tolerates cold winters of its native highlands; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. New South Wales to E. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus glaucescens, commonly known as the Tingiringi gum or Tingaringy gum, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a tree or mallee with smooth bark and dull greyish foliage growing in the higher parts of southern New South Wales and Victoria.

Where it grows

Tingiringi gum grows in shrubland on granite slopes on the southern tablelands of New South Wales south from the Australian Capital Territory to high mountain areas in Victoria.

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 glaucescens 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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