Eucalyptus stricta - Blue Mountains Mallee Ash - Plant Profile
Eucalyptus Stricta, commonly known as the Blue Mountains Mallee Ash, is a small Mallee tree or mallee native to the Blue Mountains region of NSW, Australia. This resilient plant, with a height ranging from 1 to 7 meters depending on the substrate, boasts a width of 3 to 5 meters. It forms roots system know as a lignotuber. The Blue Mountains Mallee Ash exhibits elegant small flowers on previous seasons growth in hues of white to cream. Thriving in temperate to cool-temperate climate zones, flourishing in full sun and tolerating light shade. It proves to be hardy thriving in sandy, poor soils, with a preference for acidic to neutral pH levels. Notably frost-hardy, this plant showcases its hardiness in our tough australian climate.
Description:
Scientific Name: Eucalyptus stricta
Common Name: Blue Mountains Mallee Ash
Family: Myrtaceae
Habit: Small Tree, Mallee
Hight: 1-7m (Dependant on substrate)
Width: 3-5m
Flower Colour: White, Cream, Yellow
Flower Time: Recorded in January, February, March, April, June, August, September and December.
Soil: Sandstone, poor soils
Climate Zone: Temperate to Cool-Temperate
Frost Tolerant: Yes
Drought tolerant: Yes
Garden Styles: Australian Native, Mediterranean or waterwise.
Special Uses: E. stricta make great productive additions to the garden. Trunks and stems can be harvested for firewood kindling. Due to their hardly nature and underground lignotuber if you cut a few branches off at the base each year they will reshoot. You can then cut and dry the branches for 12 months before using them as kindling in your fireplace or wood burning stove. Harvesting mallees from wild plant populations is an offence under the NSW government National Parks and Wildlife Regulation 2019.
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