#eucalypt

Eucalyptus pauciflora

29-SEP-2025

AKA pricklybark or dwutta. First formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1882, and named after Emil Todt, a botanical artist who drew some of the plates for Mueller's Atlas of Eucalypts. At least 14 other eucalypts have the common name Blackbutt, usually because they've survived bushfires that scorched the lower bark.

An often sprawling, slow-growing tree or mallee that may reach 15 m in height and forms a lignotuber. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile leaves that are elliptical to oblong and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, light green, and lance-shaped. The abundant white-cream flowers appear in summer and early autumn.

Endemic to scrub and open woodland on sandy flats and gentle slopes on the coastal plain between Perth and Dongara.