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Eucalyptus Rossii

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Price:
$110.00 (including GST)
Common Name:
SCRIBBLY GUM
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:

  • Tree to 20m high with smooth white or yellow bark with scribbles, shedding in short ribbons. 
  • Dull grey-green leaves. 
  • Diameter at breast height up to 1m.
  • Flowering December to February. 

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.
    Dry sclerophyll woodland. 
  • Poor shallow stony soils on rises, and low ridges in undulating country.
  • Well-drained soil. Tolerates frost.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Scribbles in bark are left by insect larvae which burrow beneath bark.
  • Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks.
  • Nectar-rich flowers are a food source for various native birds.
  • Attractive specimen for landscaping due to white trunk and spreading branches.

SIMILAR SPECIES: 

  • Sometimes confused with Eucalyptus Mannifera - Brittle Gum - but distinguished by its scribbly non-powdery bark, leaves and buds. One of five species known as Scribbly Gum due to insects feeding in the bark, although other four species not within region. They are Eucalyptus Haemastoma, Eucalyptus Racemosa, Eucalyptus Sclerophylla and Eucalyptus Signata.

 

 

Image Source: Brooker & Kleinig via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)