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Pilbara Mallee

Eucalyptus pilbarensis

Pilbara Mallee
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Eucalyptus pilbarensis is a mallee or low shrub from the Pilbara region of north-west Western Australia, growing 3 to 4 m tall and grown mainly as a hardy outdoor specimen or revegetation plant in dry climates. It is best suited to a sunny, well-drained site with little summer water once established.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established; allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or stony soil; tolerates poor, alkaline substrates.
Temperature
15–35 °C; tolerates heat and frost to about -5 °C once established.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Eucalyptus pilbarensis is a species of mallee or low shrub that is endemic to the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It has smooth, white or greyish bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and conical, barrel-shaped or cylindrical fruit.

Where it grows

This mallee grows in more or less pure stands with E. ferriticola on mesa cliff faces and surrounding slopes of Mount Nameless, near Mount Brockman and near Roy Hill in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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 pilbarensis 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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