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Eucalyptus Sideroxylon

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Price:
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Common Name:
RED IRONBARK

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 35m high with red-brown to brown-black "ironbark" and dull green or grey-green adult leaves.
  • Dark red with moderately fine texture and interlocked grain. Very hard, strong, and extremely durable. 

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.
    Sclerophyll woodland on lighter poorer soils.
  • Poor, shallow soils including gravels, sands, ironstones and clays. 
  • Tolerates frost. 
  • Moderately drought tolerant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Useful medium to high-level cover in windbreaks.
  • Excellent as fuel
  • Excellent habitat. Honeyeaters, Swift Parrots, lorikeets, Squirrel Gliders and Sugar Gliders attracted to nectar, an important winter food source. Important food source for many native insect-eating birds and mammals. Hollows good nest sites for many birds and mammals.
  • Very attractive. Flowers prolifically. Beautiful dark bark and contrasting foliage. Apparently retains rich coloured features when grown quickly.
  • One of most reliable honey producing Australian trees.

 

 

 

 

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