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Needilup Mallee

Eucalyptus xanthonema

Needilup Mallee
Photo: Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0

Needilup Mallee is a multi-stemmed mallee, a eucalypt that grows as a shrub or small tree from a lignotuber, endemic to south-west Western Australia. It is a tough, drought-tolerant native best grown in full sun in well-drained soil, and it is not commonly grown as a houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub, Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow to dry out between waterings; mallees tolerate drought once mature.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, sandy soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates frost once established but protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus xanthonema, commonly known as yellow-flowered mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, linear adult leaves, flower buds in groups of up to eleven, white to pale lemon-coloured flowers and barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

The yellow-flowered mallee grows in low mallee shrubland on plains and gentle slopes between Williams, the Stirling Range and the Fitzgerald River National Park. Subspecies apposita is restricted to the Stirling Range.

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 xanthonema 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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