Eucalyptus Mannifera

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

RED SPOTTED 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:

Tree to 20m high with smooth powdery white, grey or red bark in patches, shedding in short ribbons, plates or flakes. Open crown of dull narrow green to grey-green leaves.
Flowering White, spring-autumn (mainly February to March).
Leaves produce range of dyes depending on mordants used.

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 the easterly catchments and higher rainfall areas. Predominantly east of the Hume Highway, and southern areas.
Open dry sclerophyll woodland. Typically on shallow, rocky, relatively infertile soils.
Well-drained soils. Tolerates frost, moderate snowfalls and drought.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful medium-level cover in wide windbreaks.
Useful to revegetate recharge sites to reduce water entering watertable.
Timber is of little value. Pink, soft, brittle timber.
Excellent habitat. Particularly valuable for hollows, important nesting sites for many native birds and mammals, including the Greater Glider and Yellow-bellied Glider. Flowers are a food source for many native insects. Insect-eating birds attracted.
Highly ornamental. Responds well to coppicing to obtain multi-stemmed plants.

SIMILAR SPECIES:

Distinguished from Eucalyptus Rubida - Candlebark - by its juvenile leaves and fruit.

Image Source: Kelly, D. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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