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Northern Blue Box

Eucalyptus magnificata

Also called Enmore Blue Box

Northern Blue Box
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Northern blue box is a small tree or sometimes a mallee from grassy woodland in New South Wales and southeast Queensland, grown mainly as a landscape or native tree. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and tolerates cold winters better than most eucalypts.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply and infrequently once established, allowing the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, shallow to medium soils; tolerates poor, rocky ground.
Temperature
Frost-tolerant; suited to cool to warm temperate and subtropical conditions, protect young plants below -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Queensland to New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus magnificata, commonly known as blue box or northern blue box, is a species of small tree or sometimes a mallee that is restricted to a small area of New South Wales. It has rough, fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth bark above, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white or pale yellow flowers and conical fruit.

Where it grows

Blue box grows in grassy woodland on shallow soils near Armidale in New South Wales and Stanthorpe in south-eastern Queensland.

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 magnificata 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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