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Small Fruit Gum

Eucalyptus ovularis

Also called Small Fruit Mallee, Small Fruited Mallee

Eucalyptus ovularis, small-fruited mallee, is a eucalypt species from southern Western Australia that grows as a multi-stemmed mallee or small tree. It is a hardy drought-tolerant plant that suits dry, sunny, well-drained gardens.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little supplementary water.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil, tolerant of limestone-influenced and alkaline soils.
Temperature
Hardy to mild frost; protect young plants below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus ovularis, commonly known as small-fruited mallee, is a species of mallee or a tree that is native to Western Australia.

Where it grows

The tree has a scattered distribution in southern parts of the Goldfields-Esperance region between Ravensthorpe in the west, Coolgardie in the north to around Cape Arid in the east where it is found on plains growing in sandy or loamy soils over and around limestone.

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 ovularis 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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