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Youman's Stringybark

Eucalyptus youmanii

Youman's Stringybark
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Youman's stringybark is a small to medium tree from eastern Australia, typically reaching about 20 m, with rough stringy bark and white flowers in February and March. It is a woodland tree from cool subtropical highlands, so it is grown mainly outdoors in mild climates rather than as a houseplant.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young trees regularly until established, then allow the soil to dry between deep waterings; it tolerates dry spells once mature.
Soil
Well-drained, poor to moderately fertile soil; tolerates sandy or stony ground.
Temperature
Tolerates cool winters and mild summers; suited to frost-hardy temperate and subtropical climates, most vulnerable to frost when young.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to E. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus youmanii, commonly known as Youman's stringybark, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit.

Where it grows

Youman's stringybark grows in woodland on poor soils from the Armidale-Guyra area in New South Wales to near Stanthorpe in Queensland.

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 youmanii 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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