Two Fluffy Mallee Flowers

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Two Fluffy Mallee Flowers

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Michaela Perryman

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Eucalyptus impensa, commonly known as the Eneabba mallee, is a species of straggly mallee that is endemic to a small area of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, dull, light green, egg-shaped to broadly lance-shaped leaves, flower buds arranged singly in leaf axils, pink flowers and relatively large, flattened hemispherical fruit.

Eucalyptus impensa is a straggly mallee that typically grows to a height of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth grey and brownish bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves arranged more or less in opposite pairs, broadly egg-shaped, 60–110 mm (2.4–4.3 in) long and 45–65 mm (1.8–2.6 in) wide. Adult leaves are also arranged more or less in opposite pairs, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped, 105–140 mm (4.1–5.5 in) long and 40–80 mm (1.6–3.1 in) wide on a thick petiole up to 10 mm (0.39 in) long. The flower buds are arranged singly in leaf axils on a thick peduncle 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) long. The mature bud is oval to more or less spherical, 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) long and 25–35 mm (0.98–1.38 in) wide with a beaked operculum about 25 mm (0.98 in) long.

Flowering has been recorded in May, June and July and the flowers are pink. The fruit is a woody, flattened hemispherical capsule, 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) long and 48–55 mm (1.9–2.2 in) wide with the valves protruding above the rim

Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia

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