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Rudall River Mallee Box

Eucalyptus rowleyi

Eucalyptus rowleyi is a multi-stemmed mallee eucalypt from the arid Pilbara region of Western Australia, growing 3 to 5 m tall. It is a hardy desert species that needs full sun, good drainage and little water, and it is rarely grown outside its native range.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, alkaline soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot desert conditions; protect young plants below about 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus rowleyi is a species of mallee that is endemic to the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It has smooth grey bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven or nine, white flowers and cylindrical to urn-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

This mallee usually grows on broad floodplains or in open mallee vegetation. It is only known from the area between Marble Bar, Newman and the Rudall River National Park in the Little Sandy Desert and Pilbara biogeographic regions.

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 rowleyi 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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