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Eucalyptus orthostemon
Also called Swamp Mallee
Diverse mallee is a small, multi-stemmed Australian eucalypt native to southwest Western Australia, growing in saline flats and sandy soils. It is grown mainly as a hardy, drought-tolerant garden or landscape tree in dry, sunny sites.
Eucalyptus orthostemon, also known as diverse mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth coppery and greyish bark, linear adult leaves, oval to spindle-shaped buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and conical to cup-shaped fruit.
This eucalypt grows in saline saltbush flats, mostly between Moora and Wongan Hills in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus orthostemon 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.
