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Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus sargentii

Also called Salt River Gum, Mortlock River Mallee, Salt River Mallet, Sargent's Mallet

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

Eucalyptus sargentii, the Salt River gum, is a small tree or mallee from south-western Western Australia that grows in low, poorly drained ground near salt lakes and salt creeks. It tolerates saline and waterlogged soils, and it is grown outside its native range mainly as a hardy shade and ornamental tree.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates periodic waterlogging and salt.
Soil
Tolerates heavy, clay, saline or poorly drained soils; well-drained loam also suits it.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates frost once established, protect young plants below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus sargentii, commonly known as Salt River gum, is a species of mallet, mallee or small tree that is endemic to Western Australia. It has rough bark on part or all of the trunk, smooth bark above, linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, whitish to creamy yellow flowers and conical fruit.

Where it grows

Salt River gum grows in open woodland in low-lying, poorly drained areas near salt lakes and salt creeks. It has a scattered distribution from Pithara to Lake Grace in the Avon Wheatbelt biogeographic region. Subspecies onesis is restricted to seven populations between Piawaning, York and Cunderdin.

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 sargentii 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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