Eucalyptus leucoxylon
Yellow Gum
MYRTACEAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( [email protected] )
&
Ken Harris

(updated 6 July 2004)


Flowering branch, cream flowers
Little Desert National Park, Victoria, 1st October 1989

This is a small to medium tree to 25 m tall. The bark is usually rough at the base, but mostly smooth, whitish to yellowish. Adult leaves are green, lanceolate and usually curved, up to 20 cm long. Flowers occur in groups of three in leaf axils, and are mainly whitish in the wild. However, a bright pink variety is very common in cultivation. The flowers are a favourite of several species of honeyeaters.


Pink flowers
A garden in Churchill, Victoria, 20th January 1997

Eucalyptus leucoxylon in the wild is restricted to the western half of Victoria and South Australia, although it is commonly grown in parks and gardens all over Australia..

The foliage is food for some Caterpillars, for example :

  • Porela delineata ( LASIOCAMPIDAE )

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