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Kondinin Blackbutt

Eucalyptus kondininensis

Also called Black Yate, Stocking Gum, Stockingtree

Kondinin Blackbutt
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Kondinin blackbutt is a eucalypt tree native to the south-west of Western Australia, growing 4 to 20 metres tall with rough black bark on the trunk. It tolerates dry, saline and sandy-laterite soils, which makes it suited to harsh, dry sites.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established; it tolerates drought and saline conditions.
Soil
Well-drained loamy or sandy-clay soil; tolerates laterite and saline soils.
Temperature
Hardy in warm temperate to subtropical climates; tolerates heat and frost in its native range.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus kondininensis, commonly known as Kondinin blackbutt, is a species of tree that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has rough, black bark on the trunk, smooth grey to white bark on the branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped to conical fruit.

Where it grows

Kondinin blackbutt is found on rocky rises, on salt flats and around salt lakes in inland areas of the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in loamy-sandy-clay soils over laterite. It has a scattered distribution from around Pingelly in the west to Ravensthorpe in the east and from Lake King in the north to Nyabing in the south. It occurs in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

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 kondininensis 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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