Eucalyptus dalrympleana

Eucalyptus dalrympleana or Mountain White Gum is native to Australia. With rapid growth, it forms a large, majestic tree with an upright, broad, imposing habit over time. Its characteristic fragrant foliage has hints of cinnamon. Its blue-green leaves are lanceolate, pendulous, and incurved. You will also appreciate its smooth and white bark, which exfoliates in patches, marbled with grey, pink or olive green in the autumn. Its lovely white pompom-like flowers appear in spring. An ideal species for large gardens, happy in most regions, since it is hardy down to -15° C. It tolerates a slightly chalky soil.

Eucalyptus dalrympleana is a species native to Australia, from the east of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Like all Eucalyptus, it belongs to the Myrtaceae family. Its growth is rapid, ultimately forming a large elegant tree with an ovate crown measuring from 15 to 20 m (49 ft 2 in to 65 ft 7 in) in height and 4 to 8 m (13 ft 1 in to 26 ft 2 in) in spread, depending on the growing conditions. Its bark is smooth all over and creamy white. The foliage remains juvenile for 4 or 5 years with rounded, small, blue-green leaves. The adult leaves are pendulous, larger, elliptical or lanceolate and incurved. Their colour is grey-green to bright green. This foliage gives off a typical Eucalyptus fragrance when crushed, with notes of cinnamon. The flowering stretches from November to May, depending on the climate and the age. Generally, it occurs in February-March. The flowers are grouped in threes at the leaf axils in white glomerules. This Mountain White Gum generally grows as a single upright trunk. It has received an Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in England.

Eucalyptus dalrympleana is an imposing tree best suited for large gardens. Easy to care for, it is resistant down to -15° C once mature. It is an ornamental plant at all stages of its growth, young and mature. Undemanding in terms of soil, it tolerates a bit of lime and grows in well-drained, neutral to slightly acidic, dry to ordinary soil, in full sun. It requires space, but has numerous ornamental qualities.