Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Wesbter's Mallee

Eucalyptus websteriana

Also called Webster's Mallee, Heart Leaved Mallee

Wesbter's Mallee
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 3.0

Webster's mallee is a small multi-stemmed eucalypt from the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, growing 4 to 5 m with a spreading habit and heart-shaped leaves. It suits dry, sunny gardens with well-drained, rocky soil and is rarely grown as a houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Bulb
Light
Part shade
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established, and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or rocky soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
10–40 °C; tolerates heat and light frost, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Eucalyptus websteriana, commonly known as Webster's mallee, heart-leaf mallee or dainty mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It has reddish minni ritchi bark on the trunk and branches, egg-shaped to heart-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, pale cream-coloured to yellow flowers and usually hemispherical fruit.

Where it grows

This mallee is found on rocky rises in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia in an area centred around Kalgoorlie. Its range extends to the western fringe of the Great Victoria Desert to the east of Cosmo Newberry down to around Kambalda and Norseman in the south west where it grows in rocky 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 websteriana 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…