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Yellow-top mallee-ash

Eucalyptus luehmanniana

Also called Yellow Topped Mallee Ash, Yellow Top Ash

Yellow-top mallee-ash
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0

Eucalyptus luehmanniana is a mallee-form eucalypt, typically 6 to 7 m tall, native to a small area of coastal sandstone plateau near Sydney, New South Wales. It is grown as an ornamental tree or large shrub, and it needs good drainage and full sun.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then water sparingly and allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, rocky, shallow soils.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range of temperatures; generally frost hardy once established, roughly down to -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus luehmanniana, commonly known as the yellow top mallee ash, is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area in New South Wales. It has smooth white bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven or more, white flowers and cup-shaped, urn-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit. It has a restricted distribution on poor, rocky soils near Sydney.

Where it grows

The yellow top mallee ash grows in mallee heath on shallow soils derived from sandstone on the coastal plateau in the Sydney region, between the Hawkesbury River and Bulli. Despite having a restricted distribution, it is locally abundant.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus luehmanniana 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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