Eucalyptus polyanthemos ssp. vestita
Red Box
Dense to spreading, small to medium rough-barked tree, trunk often crooked.
Additional information
- FamilyMyrtaceae
- StoreyUpper storey
- Size7-25 m x 5-15 m
- Plant groupingTrees 5 m +
- LeavesRoundish blue-green juvenile leaves retained as adult foliage, 4-5 cm x 3.5-5 cm
- Flower colourCream
- Flowering timeSeptember to January
- FlowersProfuse 7-flowered bunches of flowers at the ends of branches. Buds bluish and diamond-shaped; fruit barrel-shaped.
- Bird attractingGeneral - food and habitat
- Butterfly attractingBoth food for caterpillars and nectar for butterflies.
- Frog habitatNo
- Growing conditionsPoor stony soils and dry ridges and slopes. Well drained situations. Full sun, semi shade. Frost hardy.
- Garden useOrnamental smaller eucalypt for dry areas. Screen, honey production. Foliage is used with cut flowers. Bird habitat.
- Commercially availableAustralian plant & indigenous nurseries
- Conservation statusSignificant within the Shire. Known from very few local sites. More common outside the Shire boundary.
- Aboriginal Use Eucalypts provided food, medicines, containers, string and tools.
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Photographer/s: 1, 3, 4, 5 Marilyn Bull ©; 2 Peter Kinchington ©
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