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Wolgan Snow Gum

Eucalyptus gregsoniana

Also called Mallee Snow Gum, Dwarf Snow Gum

Wolgan Snow Gum
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Eucalyptus gregsoniana is a small mallee eucalypt, usually around 4 m tall, native to the mountains and tablelands of New South Wales. It is grown as a garden or specimen tree in mild climates, and it needs full sun and good drainage.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between deeper waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
Frost hardy to around -10 °C once established; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus gregsoniana, commonly known as the Wolgan snow gum or mallee snow gum, is a species of mallee that is endemic to New South Wales. It has white to pale grey bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped, hemispherical or conical fruit.

Where it grows

Wolgan snow gum grows in mallee and heath vegetation on the mountains and tablelands of the Blue Mountains and Budawang Mountains as well as on the Southern Tablelands between Newnes and Wadbilliga.

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 gregsoniana 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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