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Eucalyptus microtheca
Also called Flooded Box, Coolibah, Bastard Box, Western Coolibah, Desert Box, Tropical Coolibah
Coolabah is a fast-growing eucalyptus tree native to northern Australia, typically 5 to 10 m tall, that thrives along riverbanks and on heavy flood plain soils. It is grown in warm, dry regions where its tolerance of full sun, poor soil and cold makes it easy to establish.
Eucalyptus microtheca, with many common names including desert box, coolibah, callaille, targoon, yathoo or coolabah, is a species of tree that is endemic to northern Australia. It has rough, flaky or fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and spherical to conical fruit. It is widely distributed from the Kimberley region of Western Australia to Cape York in Queensland.
The tree is distributed widely across northern Australia and mostly found along river banks and in the heavy soils of flood plains. It is the second most widely distributed species in Australia after Eucalyptus camaldulensis.
Indigenous Australians harvested seeds from E. microtheca as a source of food.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus microtheca 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.
