Botanical Name: Eucalyptus lehmannii
Common Name: Bushy yate
Type of Plant: dicot: tree/shrub
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape variable in growth habit; mostly single-trunked and low-branching, shrubby in youth, becoming broadly rounded, flat-topped at maturity; canopy becomes more dense with age; grayish-brown bark peels off irregularly
Height 20-30' (40')
Spread 3/4-equal
Growth Rate mod-rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full or partial sun
Soil tolerates most, including alkaline soils
Hardiness hardy (zones 8-24); prefers mild coastal habitats
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnate, alternate-oval-oblong, lanceolate or elliptical, 2-3" long, dark green, leathery
Flowers yellow-green, many-stamened, in dense round clusters
Fruit capsules fused together into a round, hard mass
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
a small to med.-sized accent tree, used for interesting form if pruned - otherwise mostly used as a windscreen or large background mass; used as a hillside planting for erosion control along the coast
 
Landscape Care:
Watering an occasional deep soak
Fertilizing little needed after established
Pruning none, unless a small open tree-form is desired
Pests/Diseases relatively free
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Australia
Family: Myrtaceae

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