Archive for the 'Eucalypts' Category

This is the white form of Eucalyptus calycogona which is the subspecies ‘Eastern’. This is most likely to be found in the mallee district East of Adelaide across to the Victorian border. The photo is of a plant which is a street tree. It began flowering a few weeks ago and still has masses of buds still to open. The bees were very busy in clusters of flowers when I took this photo.

Eucalyptus calycogona (Square- friuted Mallee) White

This is a mallee 2 to 6 metres tall. It seems to be a more vigorous plant than the subspecies calycogona pictured in the previous post. It is certainly taller and seems to have denser foliage. Both subspecies are frost hardy.

I think this must be the species that my friend would bring me each winter from the farm, not the subspecies from the previous post.

This information is from Dean Nicolle’s book ‘Eucalyptus of South Australia’. He has a collection of Eucalypts in an arboretum south east of Adelaide towards Victor Harbor.

Eucalyptus calycogona (Square- fruited Mallee)

This lovely flowering Eucalypt is Eucalyptus calycogona. This particular plant with the deep pink flowers is the one that was being given away as a memento of the Jubilee 150 celebrations in South Australia in 1986. It appears that this is subspecies calycogona as the white to pale pink form is called subspecies ‘Eastern’. I photographed this in a small planting up the road from here.

A friend living near the Victorian border brought me a bunch of the flowers from trees growing on their fence line each winter. In spite of thinking me wierd she persisted for many years with this offering until they retired into town. It grows well on the limestone here despite the fact that the books say ‘prefers heavy loams’.