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Scaly Butt Mallee

Eucalyptus leprophloia

Scaly Butt Mallee
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0

Scaly butt mallee is a small multi-stemmed eucalypt (2 to 5 m) native only to a small area of southwestern Western Australia, grown mainly as a native or ornamental tree. It is grown mostly outdoors in dry, free-draining sites, and it tolerates the sun and dry conditions typical of its home range.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then water deeply and infrequently; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil, tolerant of poor and gravelly ground.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates mild frost once established
How easy
Moderate

About

Eucalyptus leprophloia, commonly known as scaly butt mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area in Western Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the base of the trunk, smooth bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven to eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped to barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Scaly butt mallee is only known from near Badgingarra to the Mount Adams area where it grows in a range of habitats including hill slopes and gentle valleys with powderbark wandoo and coastal blackbutt.

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 leprophloia 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.

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