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Eucalyptus Dwyeri
Price:
$110.00
(including GST)
Common Name:
Dwyer'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:
- Mallee or tree to 15m high with dull-green leaves and smooth bark shedding in plates or flakes.
- Flowering creamy white from winter to spring. Flowers regularly.
- Red timber, reasonably hard.
WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:
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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.Found on dry, rocky hills mainly west of the Hume Highway.
- Sclerophyll mallee shrubland.
- Well-drained shallow soils on siliceous ridges.
MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:
- Useful low to medium-level cover in windbreaks in hill country.
- Useful in recharge revegetation.
- Good supplies of nectar and pollen used by various native insects and birds.
- Attractive ornamental for gardens.
- Significant tree in apiculture.
SIMILAR SPECIES:
- Distinguished from Eucalyptus Dealbata - Tumbledown Gum - by its narrower leaves, particularly in seedlings.
- Distinguished from Eucalyptus Blakelyi - Blakely's Red Gum - by its narrower leaves and flat or sunken fruit disc, while Eucalyptus Blakelyi has more or less raised disc.
Image Source: Brooker & Kleinig via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)
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