Key Benefits
 | Small species for home gardens |
| Low moisture requirements |
Problem Solving Features
| Does well in saline soils |
| Low nutrient needs |
| Low maintenance |
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Eucalyptus rigens Saltlake mallee |
SUBGENUS SYMPHYOMYRTUS Section Dumaria Series Tetrapterae |
Description: A small mallee to 4m from West Australia with a shrubby habit. Salt tolerance is excellent and makes a good species for salinity reclamation. The bark is smooth, various colors of gray, whitish gray and pinkish brown. The leaves are very stiff in nature and light green to blue-gray. Found along salt lakes on sandy to clay soil types north of Esperance.
Climate data:
Culture: Full sun, sandy to clay soils. Very salt tolerant.
Uses: Small landscaping species, ornamental, salt tolerant.
| Temperature Rating | USDA Zone |
| Type | Mallee 16', lignotuber |
| Flower Color | White |
| Growth Rate | Moderate |
| Placement | Sun |
| Soil | Acid, sand or clay |
| Culture | annual rainfall - probably 20" or less |
| Native | West Australia |
| Family | Myrtaceae |
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