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Eucalyptus melanophloia
Also called Silver Leaved Ironbark, Broadleaf Ironbark, Silverleaf Ironbark, Silverleaf Stringybark
Silver-leaf ironbark is a small to medium eucalyptus tree native to woodlands of northeastern Australia, growing 20 to 25 m tall with hard, rough, dark bark. It is a species, not a houseplant, and is grown outdoors in warm, dry climates.
Eucalyptus melanophloia, commonly known as silver-leaved ironbark, is a species of tree that is endemic to northeastern Australia. It is a small to medium-sized tree with rough, hard ironbark on the trunk and branches. The crown is usually composed of juvenile leaves that are dull, glaucous, sessile and arranged in opposite pairs. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven, the flowers white and the fruit cup-shaped to hemispherical.
The silver-leaved ironbark grows in woodland on plains and tablelands in the eastern half of Queensland south from Mareeba, on the western side of the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales north from Dubbo and in a few isolated locations in the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus melanophloia 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.
