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Fluted Horn Mallee

Eucalyptus stowardii

Also called Stoward's Mallee

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

Fluted Horn Mallee (Eucalyptus stowardii) is a multi-stemmed eucalypt shrub or small tree from south-west Western Australia, growing 2.5 to 7 m tall. It needs full sun, good drainage and a dry, open position.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants are drought tolerant.
Soil
Well-drained gravelly or sandy loam; tolerates poor, stony soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and mild frosts; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus stowardii, commonly known as fluted-horn mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and ribbed, cylindrical to cup-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

The fluted-horn mallee is found on stony rises, limestone hills and road verges between Dowerin, Carnamah and Wubin in the central northern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, where it grows in open shrubland in gravelly sand-loam 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 stowardii 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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