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Woila Gum

Eucalyptus olsenii

Also called Olsen's Gum

Woila Gum
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Woila gum is a small eucalyptus tree native to a restricted area of the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, valued as an ornamental. It grows well in full sun and well-drained soil, and tolerates the poor soils of its native steep slopes.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, poor to average soil; tolerates rocky or nutrient-poor ground.
Temperature
Cool to warm temperate conditions, roughly -5 to 35 °C; tolerates light frost once established.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus olsenii, commonly known as the Woila gum, is a species of small tree that is endemic to a restricted area on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. It has smooth bark with rough bark on the lower trunk, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped or urn-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Woila gum is restricted to mountains north east of Cooma and south of Braidwood, where it grows in woodland in poor soil on steep slopes. It also grows well as an ornamental tree.

Other Eucalyptus plants

White eucalyptus · New England Stringybark · River redgum · Coowarra Box · Coolabah · Narrowleaf red ironbark · White gum · Indonesian gum · River peppermint gum · Tasmanian bluegum · Cider gum · Araluen Gum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus olsenii 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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