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Ribbon Barked Mallee

Eucalyptus sheathiana

Ribbon Barked Mallee
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Ribbon-barked mallee is a Western Australian eucalypt that grows as a multi-stemmed mallee or small tree, with bark shed in long ribbons. It is a hardy native of dry plains, so it needs full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little supplementary water.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or lateritic soil, tolerant of poor fertility.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates frost to about -5 °C once established, protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eucalyptus sheathiana, commonly known as ribbon-barked gum or ribbon-barked mallee, is a species of tree or a mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth bark that is shed in long ribbons, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and conical to cup-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

This eucalypt is found on plains in the southern wheatbelt between Wongan Hills, Nyabing and Lake King, and in nearby parts of the Goldfields-Esperance region. It grows in shrubland on sandy lateritic soils.

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 sheathiana 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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