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Eucalyptus oxymitra Sharp-capped mallee, Blue mallee |
Description: A small mallee to 16' (4 m), forming a lignotuber. The bark of trunks are more or less rough with grey-brown imperfectly decorticated ribbons, smooth grey and creamy above. Branchlets glaucous or non-glaucous; leaves gray-blue to a pale yellow-green. Flowers white to pale yellow. A mallee of remote areas in central Australia, the south-western Northern Territory, South Australia; on sand plains and dunes, and also on rocky slopes.
Culture: Sun, well drained acid pH soil.
Uses: Ornamental for smaller landscapes
| Temperature Rating | USDA Zone 8 |
| Type | Mallee to 16' |
| Flower Color | White to pale yellow |
| Growth Rate | Moderate |
| Culture | Low moisture |
| Native | Central Australia |
| Family | Myrtaceae |
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