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Mount Isa Mallee Red Gum

Eucalyptus nudicaulis

Mount Isa Mallee Red Gum is a small mallee eucalypt from north-west Queensland, growing 2 to 6 m tall with a lignotuber, found on rocky ridges and hillsides near Mount Isa and Cloncurry. It is a hardy outdoor tree suited to hot, dry, well-drained sites, and is not a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, rocky or sandy soil; tolerates poor, shallow soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot summers and dry conditions; frost tolerance is limited, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Eucalyptus nudicaulis is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area in north-west Queensland. It has smooth, mottled grey bark, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit.

Where it grows

This eucalypt grows on quartzite ridges, in rocky gullies and on steep hillsides in a small area near Mount Isa and Cloncurry.

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 nudicaulis 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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