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Yumbarra Mallee

Eucalyptus yumbarrana

Yumbarra Mallee
Photo: Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, CC BY 3.0 au

Yumbarra mallee is a multi-stemmed eucalyptus native to arid South Australia, growing to about 6 m as a mallee or sprawling shrub-tree. It is a drought-tolerant landscape and bush plant that needs full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established; avoid soggy soil.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandy loam soil; tolerates poor, alkaline soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and frosts once established; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus yumbarrana, commonly known as the Yumbarra mallee is a species of mallee that is endemic to South Australia. It has rough, flaky bark on the lower trunk, smooth bark above, egg-shaped to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white to yellow flowers and shortened spherical to cup-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Eucalyptus yumbarrana is often found in the swales between sand dunes in open shrubland in arid areas in the Yumbarra and Koonibba areas.

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 yumbarrana 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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