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Corackerup Marlock

Eucalyptus vesiculosa

Corackerup Marlock
Photo: Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0

Eucalyptus vesiculosa, the Corackerup marlock, is a small shrubby tree (a marlock) from a tiny area of south coast Western Australia, growing to about 3 m. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is general and based on typical eucalyptus needs.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply and let the top of the soil dry between waterings; eucalypts resent soggy roots.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established, protect young plants below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus vesiculosa, commonly known as the Corackerup marlock, is a species of marlock (a small, shrubby tree with a crown extending to near ground level) that is endemic to a small area on the south coast of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves, flower buds usually in groups of seven, red flowers and conical fruit.

Where it grows

Corackerup marlock is only known from two localities near Ongerup where it grows in more or less pure stands.

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 vesiculosa 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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