Eucalyptus buprestium

Apple mallee
Eucalyptus buprestium from Eucalyptographia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. buprestium
Binomial name
Eucalyptus buprestium

Eucalyptus buprestium also known as the apple mallee or ball-fruited mallee,[1] is a tree that is native to an area along the south coast of Western Australia.[2]

Description

The mallee typically grows to a height of 1 to 6 metres (3 to 20 ft) and has smooth grey bark. It blooms between November and April producing white flowers.[2] The plant forms a lignotuber. The bark is greenish brown and grey-cream bark that sheds in ribbons. The crown of the mallee is dense and rounded. The small buds eventually form into large fruits which are globular in shape.[1] The adult leaves are disjunct dull, grey-green, thick and concolorous. The blade has a narrow lanceolate, falcate or not falcate, and basally tapered. The simple, axillary conflorescence has seven to eleven flowered umbellasters with narrowly flattened or angular peduncles.[3]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1862 as part of the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.[4]

Distribution

It is found on sandplains and ridge tops along the south coast in the Great Southern region of Western Australia between Albany in the west, Mount Barker in the north and Jerramungup in the east where it grows in gravelly sandy-clay soils.[2]

The mallee is used in gardens as an ornamental, for hedges or windbreaks and a screening plant. It uses little water and grows well in poor soils.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus buprestium Apple Mallee, Ball-fruited mallee". Windmill Outback Nursery. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus buprestium". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  3. ↑ "A Web Guide to the Eucalypts Eucalyptus buprestium". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Eucalyptus buprestium F.Muell". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
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