Mar 30
#3607 - Eucalyptus utilis - Coastal Moort
Formerly known as E. platypus var. heterophylla, until Australian botanists Ian Brooker and Stephen Hopper elevated it to its own species in 2002, based on specimens collected by Charles Austin Gardner near Hopetoun forty years earlier.
It grows to up to 15m tall, in a variety of coastal habitats from Perth south and east to Esperance, and a few scattered areas further east. Whether its growth form should be considered a mallee or a mallet is apparently the subject of ongoing debate, as there is disagreement on whether it grows a lignotuber or not - mallets don't.
Point Peron, Perth.
