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Eucalyptus orophila

Eucalyptus orophila is a small tree or shrub from East Timor, typically 14.5 m tall as a tree or about 2 m as a shrub on exposed higher sites. It is a eucalypt grown mainly for its form and foliage, and it tolerates the seasonally dry tropical conditions of its native range.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply when the top of the soil dries, and reduce watering in the wet season.
Soil
Well-drained soil or gritty mix; tolerates poor, rocky soils.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Lesser Sunda Is. (E. Timor)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Eucalyptus orophila is a species of small tree or shrub that is endemic to East Timor. It has rough, scaly, flaky bark on the lower part of the trunk, smooth bark above, egg-shaped to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped to bell-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

This eucalypt is one of only four species only occurring outside Australia. It is only known from East Timor.

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 orophila 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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