Eucalyptus Pauciflora

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Common Name:

WHITE SALLEE

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 (and sometimes 30m), with white, grey or yellow smooth bark with scribbles.
Timber is light pink-brown, relatively soft, light and moderately strong, with gum veins.
Attractive due to pendulous foliage and colourful pink bark during summer.
Leaves produce yellow dye with mordant alum.
Flowering white-cream from October to January. Prolific.

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 dry sclerophyll woodland in flat cold sites above about 700m elevation, on deeper soils.
Mountain slopes, exposed ridgetops and tablelands in shallow rocky or alluvial well-drained soil.
Tolerates frost, strong wind and long periods of heavy snow.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Seed collection occors in Summer, although seeds generally retained for long periods.
Regeneration from seed and lignotubers.
Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks.
Valuable in highland areas for controlling erosion and intercepting snow drift.
Valuable habitat. Hollows used for nesting. Nectar source for native birds and insects. Insect-eating birds attracted.

Image Source: Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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