Eucalyptus lansdowneana
Crimson mallee · also Red-flowered mallee box, Port Lincoln gum, Port Lincoln mallee
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Eucalyptus lansdowneana is a slender stemmed, straggly mallee or low-branching tree with rough bark at the base and smooth, grey over creamy-white bark on its branches. It features dense, glossy foliage and showy, long-lasting crimson to pink-red flowers that attract birds, bees, and butterflies. Adapted to dry, temperate, and coastal regions, this species is considered rare in the wild, restricted to the Gawler Range of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 140.00%35 yr7.5 in
Traits
- Form
- Multi-trunk
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 26 ft
- Canopy spread
- 20 ft
- Water needs
- Low
- Drought tolerance
- High
- Wildlife value
- High
- Tolerates
- coastal
- Blooms
- Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov
Trunk diameters across every city: median 7.5 in, mean 7.5 in, 90th percentile 7.5 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub
- Eyre and York mallee
Other Eucalyptus in the catalogue
57 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
