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Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Bougainvillea Apple Bush Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
— see Eucalyptus Index
The Lemon-flowered Gum (Eucalyptus woodwardii) is a medium-sized eucalypt that has smooth, grey to white, pink, greenish or light copper coloured bark, which sheds it’s bark in ribbons, revealing a salmon-pink underlay.
Found to the east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, it is known for being a drought tolerant tree. An attractive eucalypt with large, lemon-yellow flowers, that hangs in cascades with the weeping foliage, it is a popular tree that attracts the birds and bees.
This Lemon-flowered Gum pictured here is in Alice Springs (the species being listed in the Alice Springs Town Council Native Plants Database).
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Rosanae
- Order: Myrtales
- Family: Myrtaceae
- Genus: Eucalyptus
- Species: Eucalyptus woodwardii
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for the ID by member of Eucalypt Australia Community, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/eucauscommunity/
- Eucalyptus woodwardii, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_woodwardii (last visited Aug. 17, 2022).
- Native Plants Database, Alice Springs Town Council, https://alicesprings.nt.gov.au/community/environmental-initiatives/native-plants-database
Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Bougainvillea Apple Bush Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
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