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Eucalyptus woodwardii
Also called Lemon Flowered Gum, Lemon Flowered Mallee, Woodward's Blackbutt, Woodward's Gum, Lemon Flower Mallee
Lemon-flowered gum is a small tree or mallee native to Western Australia, grown for its large lemon-yellow flowers and grey weeping foliage. It is a drought-tolerant, frost-tolerant ornamental that needs sandy, well-drained soil and little pruning.
Eucalyptus woodwardii, commonly known as lemon-flowered gum and also Woodward's blackbutt, is a small tree or mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. The Noongar name for the tree is Gungurra.
The tree is a very popular ornamental in southern Australia due to its attractive, large, lemon-yellow flowers. The cascades of yellow flowers, grey weeping foliage makes the drought tolerant tree suitable for many gardens. It is also frost tolerant and attracts bees and birds. Used as a privacy screening plant or a feature plant it has a medium growth rate and requires little pruning. It is commercially available in seed or as tubestock.
In the 1970s hybrids between this and coral gum (E. torquata) called Torwood had been developed.
Lemon-flowered gum is found on flats and rises with a field distribution that is limited to east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia in the Karonie area, and with sand or deep sandy loam.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus woodwardii 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.
