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Mt Wheelan Mallee

Eucalyptus saxatilis

Also called Suggan Buggan Mallee, Rock Mallee

Mt Wheelan Mallee
Photo: Michael D. Crisp, CC BY 3.0 au

Eucalyptus saxatilis is a mallee or small tree from rocky sites on the Victoria and New South Wales border, grown mainly as a specialist or collector's eucalypt. Like most eucalypts, it needs full sun, good drainage and little fuss once established.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply while young, then let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates dry periods once established.
Soil
Well-drained, gritty or sandy soil, tolerant of poor and rocky ground.
Temperature
Frost-hardy in cool temperate climates; protect young plants below -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. New South Wales to NE. Victoria
Climate
temperate

About

Eucalyptus saxatilis, commonly known as the Suggan Buggan mallee or Mount Wheeler mallee, is a species of mallee or small tree that is endemic to southeastern Australia. It has smooth bark that is shed in ribbons, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and bell-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Suggan Buggan mallee grows in rocky sites in a few locations near the border between far north-eastern Victoria and south-eastern New South Wales, including the Little River Gorge, Stradbroke Chasm and Mount Wheeler.

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 saxatilis 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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