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Narrow Leaved Stringybark

Eucalyptus tenella

Narrow Leaved Stringybark
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 3.0

Eucalyptus tenella, narrow-leaved stringybark, is a small to medium tree from dry woodland in New South Wales, Australia, growing to about 15 m. It is grown as an ornamental or shade tree in suitable climates and needs well-drained soil and full sun.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then water deeply and infrequently; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, shallow to moderately fertile soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
Mild to warm, around 10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established, protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus tenella, commonly known as narrow-leaved stringybark, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to New South Wales. It has stringy bark, narrow lance-shaped to linear leaves, flower buds in group of seven to fifteen, white flowers and hemispherical fruit.

Where it grows

Narrow-leaved stringybark grows in dry woodland in shallow soils between Rylstone and Nowra.

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 tenella 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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