Eucalyptus lansdowneana
| Red-flowered mallee box | |
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| Eucalyptus lansdowneana, Melbourne | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. lansdowneana |
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Eucalyptus lansdowneana L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill |
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| E. lansdowneana, field distribution | |
Eucalyptus lansdowneana, commonly known as the Crimson mallee or the Red-Flowered mallee box, is a slender stemmed, straggly mallee with smooth grey over creamy-white bark. Adult leaves are stalked, lanceolate to broad lanceolate, to 15 x 3 cm, glossy, green to yellow-green.
Red and pinkish-red flowers appear in late winter to mid spring.
Distribution is limited to the rocky hills of the Gawler Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia .
The name lansdowneana was previously also applied to another species of lower Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island; this is the distantly mallee species, E. albopurpurea, with white, pink or mauve flowers and which is grown widely as an ornamental, particularly in Perth. The true E. lansdowneana is a beautiful, slender mallee with large, glossy leaves and red flowers.
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