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Eucalyptus leptophylla
Eucalyptus leptophylla is a multi-stemmed mallee eucalypt from inland southern Australia, usually 2 to 6 m tall, grown as an ornamental, screen or windbreak. Its key to success is full sun and well-drained sandy or alkaline soil, with very little water once established.
Eucalyptus leptophylla, commonly known as the March mallee, slender-leaved red mallee or narrow-leaved red mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to inland Australia. It has smooth greyish bark, linear to narrow lance-shaped, oblong or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and thirteen, creamy white flowers and cup-shaped, barrel-shaped or hemispherical fruit.
E. leptophylla is sold commercially in seed form or as seedlings. It grows at a moderate rate, prefers a full sun position and will grow in sandy and alkaline soils.
The plant is suitable as an ornamental tree, and also makes a good screen or windbreak. It will attract pollinating birds and is drought resistant.
Eucalyptus leptophylla is found in low woodland a mallee scrubland growing in white, yellow or red sand or red-brown loam over gravel or granite. It is also found on rises, sometimes around salt lakes, on sand plains and near granite outcrops. It is distributed through southern Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia, through south-eastern South Australia, Victoria and in New South Wales from Wilcannia to West Wyalong.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus leptophylla 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.
