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Eucalyptus Cinerea

Tree
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Price:
$110.00 (including GST)
Common Name:
ARGYLE APPLE
Quantity of Trays:

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:

  • Small to medium tree to 15m high
  • Red-brown to grey-brown fibrous or stringy bark. 
  • Distinctive dull grey-green adult leaves.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Widespread, in most catchments and districts on the drier hills and slopes.
    Grassy woodlands on various soils. Commonly moderately fertile soils.
    Compact loams, below 800m elevation. 
    Tolerates frost, winter waterlogging and drought.
    Grassy or sclerophyll woodland, on shallow relatively infertile soils.
  • Poorer soils on lower slopes of hill country. 
  • Tolerates most frost. 
  • Drought resistant.
  • Adaptable to most well-drained soils.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks.
  • Attracts foliage-gleaning and scale-feeding birds such as thornbills and pardalotes. 
  • Flowers a food source for various insects. Insect-eating birds attracted. Fruits and seeds a food source for a range of native birds.
  • Very attractive for gardens and parks, due to dense blue-grey foliage. 
  • Silvery foliage used in floral industry.
  • Coppices after fire.

 

 

 

Image Source: Holliday, I.G. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)