Eucalyptus Blakelyi

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

BLAKELY'S RED GUM

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

Large tree to 20m high with smooth, patchy white bark with grey to brown or red patches, shedding in large plates or flakes.
Dull green or grey-green leaves.
Leaves produce dyes ranging in colour depending on mordants used.
Flowering usually white, mainly summer, but also late spring (generally just prior River Red Gum flowering). Heavy flowering may occur every 2-3 years, depending on season.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks if interspersed with understorey and other eucalypts to reduce pysllid activity.
Provides protection from fire as is relatively slow-burning, has high water content with low quantities of oils or resins, high salt level in leaves, and smooth bark.
Useful in gully erosion control, behind more fibrous-rooted understorey plants.
Recovers well after fire.
Good habitat. Flowers food for nectar-feeding birds and many insects, at a critical breeding time for many species. Insect-eating birds attracted. Hollows are nesting and refuge sites for many birds such as parrots, the Australian Owlet-nightjar, mammals such as Antichinus species, and reptiles such as goannas. Foliage-gleaning and scale-feeding birds attracted.
Attractive for parks and gardens, probably best interplanted with local native understorey shrubs and other trees.

SIMILAR SPECIES:

Distinguished from Eucalyptus Dealbata - Tumbledown Gum - and Eucalyptus Dwyeri - Dwyer's Gum - by fruit and form. It has more or less raised fruit disc whereas Eucalyptus Dealbata and Eucalyptus Dwyeri have flat or sunken discs.
Distinguished from Eucalyptus Camaldulensis - River Red Gum - by buds, which are cone-shaped, and not beak-shaped, as on the Eucalyptus Camaldulensis.

Image Source: Lyne, A. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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