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Esperance Plains Mallee

Eucalyptus tumida

Esperance Plains Mallee
Photo: Peter Crowcroft, CC BY 4.0

Eucalyptus tumida is a mallee, a multi-stemmed eucalypt that regrows from a lignotuber, native to the south coast of Western Australia. It is grown for its smooth bark, creamy flowers and drought tolerance, and 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 between waterings; established plants need little.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or calcareous loam; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry summers; frost hardy to moderate cold; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus tumida is a species of mallee that is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven to fifteen, white to pale yellow flowers and cylindrical fruit.

Where it grows

This mallee is found on flats and rises between in near-coastal areas between Ravensthorpe, Israelite Bay and Salmon Gums, where it grows in calcareous sandy-clay-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 tumida 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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