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Boyatup Mallee

Eucalyptus semiglobosa

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

Boyatup Mallee is a multi-stemmed eucalypt shrub or small mallee tree, usually 2 to 5 m tall, native to the south coast of Western Australia. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant species best grown in full sun in free-draining soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once mature.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, shallow soils.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range, roughly 0 to 40 °C; frost hardy when mature.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus semiglobosa is a species of mallee or small tree that is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, broadly lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and ribbed or wrinkled, shortened spherical or hemispherical fruit.

Where it grows

This eucalypt is found in scattered populated growing on shallow sand over granite between the Cape Le Grand and Cape Arid National Parks in the Esperance Plains and Mallee 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 semiglobosa 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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