Eucalyptus Macrorhyncha

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Common Name:

RED STRINGY BARK

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:

Upright tree to 30m high (and often less) with grey to red-brown stringy bark. Green adult leaves.
Flowering white-cream from January to April. Profuse and conspicuous.
Pale red-brown, moderately fine-textured, often with interlocked grain. Slow to dry, moderately durable and decorative.

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.
Widespread in many catchments and districts, particularly east of the Olympic Highway.
Dry sclerophyll forest or woodland. Shallow poor soils on rises.
Well-drained, moderately fertile soil. Tolerates frost, hot dry conditions and harsh sites.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks. Good shade due to dense compact crown. Allows grass to grow to its base.
Useful to revegetate hilly recharge sites.
Easily split and ignited. Produces few sparks.
Good habitat. Flowers are a nectar source for many native insects, birds and mammals. Insect-eating birds such as pardalotes attracted. Native birds including flycatchers, fantails, wrens, thornbills, honeyeaters and whistlers use bark for nesting material. Hollows close to ground-level are important nesting sites for Turquoise Parrot.
Shade for large gardens, although perhaps not particularly ornamental.
Leaves produce lemon dye, with mordant alum, or brown-green dye with chrome.

SIMILAR SPECIES:

Distinguished from Eucalyptus Dives - Broad-leaved Peppermint - mainly by its larger fruit of different shape, and juvenile foliage.

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

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