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Kimberly Yellow Jacket

Eucalyptus lirata

Also called Yellow Jacket, Kimberley Yellowjacket

Kimberly Yellow Jacket
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Eucalyptus lirata, the Kimberley yellowjacket, is a small tree or mallee from the Kimberley region of north-western Australia, grown mainly in the wild rather than as a garden plant. Like other eucalypts it needs full sun and well-drained soil in a warm, seasonally dry climate.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry between waterings; established trees need little extra water in a dry climate.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor, shallow soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect from frost below 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Eucalyptus lirata, commonly known as Kimberley yellowjacket, is a species of small tree or mallee that is endemic to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and most of the branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of three, white flowers and cylindrical to cup-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

The Kimberley leatherjacket grows on ridges, rises and plateaux as scattered trees or in woodland in the Kimberley region.

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 lirata 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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