Blakely's red gum bark

Blakely's Red Gum Bark
Eucalyptus blakelyi
Photo by Philip Barton

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blakelys Red Gum draped in a mist of fog

 

View of a Blakelys Red Gum on a
foggy morning
Photo: Adrian Manning

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yellow Box Bark

Yellow Box Bark
Eucalyptus melliodora
Photo: Philip Barton

 


Yellow Box- Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodlands

 

 

Description

Yellow box-Blakely’s red gum grassy woodland is an ecological community dominated by mixtures of yellow box, Eucalyptus melliodora, (below left) and Blakely’s red gum, Eucalyptus blakelyi (below right).

Yellow Box Blakely's Red Gum

In combination with white box (Eucalyptus albens), this community once occurred over an extensive area of south-eastern Australia, including the western slopes and tablelands of the Great Dividing Range, southern Queensland, western New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Victoria.

 

National Conservation Status: Critically EndangeredDistribution map of Yellow box-Blakely's red gum grassy woodlands

Since European settlement, 92% of white box-yellow box-Blakely’s red gum grassy woodland has been cleared (over 5 million hectares) and consequently, it is recognised as a critically endangered ecological community.

 

 

White box -yellow box- Blakely's red gum grassy woodland distribution.
Map adapted from http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicshowcommunity.pl?id=43


 

 

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