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Eucalyptus synandra - new and older flower

charming flowers of mallee (small eucalypt tree)...

Flowers are very conspicuous and are initially white or cream-coloured but age to deep pink with the stamens being united into a tube for the lower portion of the flowers.

It is cultivated in Kings Park, Perth.

Common Name: Jingymia mallee

Rare and threatened in the wild and uncommon in cultivation. Only several small populations known, on sandy and gravelly soils of inland, southern Western Australia.

But I believe it is going to be more popular in the gardens - according to ANPSA, it is probably the most precocious of all the eucalypts (agree!), sometimes flowering when only 15cm tall, reasonably cold-tolerant and seed germinates readily. anpsa.org.au/e-syn.html

 

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Uploaded on January 26, 2015
Taken on April 8, 2014