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Eucalyptus pruinosa, commonly known as silver box, silver leaf box, apple box or smoke tree, is a species of tree or a mallee that is endemic to northern Australia. The Jaminjung peoples know the tree as yarrirra or jarnbiny, the Jaru as wararn and the Wagiman as wararn. It has rough, fibrous to flaky bark on the trunk and branches, a crown composed of juvenile, glaucous, heart-shaped to broadly elliptical leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds arranged in groups of seven on the ends of branches, creamy white to pale yellow flowers and cylindrical to conical fruit.
Silver box is found in open savannah woodland communities on low limestone hills and on low-lying flats and grows best in sandy soils. It is widely distributed across northern Australia from the Kimberley region of Western Australia to north-western Queensland. In the Kimberley region of Western Australia it is found to the east of the KWunaamin Miliwundi Ranges in the Shire of Halls Creek and Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley. In the Northern Territory, it is found in the from Katharine to about Tennant Creek, including the Victoria Daly and Roper Gulf Regions and Arnhem Land. In Queensland it occurs as far east as Forsayth and Einasleigh and as far south as Dajarra.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus pruinosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
