An iconic tree of the Box Ironbark forests and a valued street tree across the Mount Alexander Shire. The white trunk, dense canopy and appealing blossoms make for a handsome urban tree.<\/p>\n
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The large blossoms of this eucalypt make it a prized source of nectar for nectar feeding birds and mammals. When flowering, the canopy becomes a noisy ground for feuding honeyeaters and lorikeets during the day. Cockatoos sometimes prune the flowers, leaving a halo of flowers on the ground under the canopy. At night, the vulnerable Grey-headed Flying Fox will visit and squabble over this prized resource, often flying long distances every evening to reach a productive tree.<\/p>\n
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Yellow Gums are likely to be resilient to future climate in the region (increased temperatures and decreased rainfall) and is a good choice for a native shade tree to provide urban cooling. The subspecies local to Mount Alexander Shire is Eucalyptus leucoxylon <\/em>supsp. pruinosa<\/em>. Dwarf forms have been bred by plant breeders, such as “Euky Dwarf,” which has a maximum height of ~7m and can be purchased for the smaller garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4897,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"project":[68,65,66,64,69,67],"class_list":["post-4337","plant","type-plant","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project-book","project-climate-modelling","project-cool-it","project-cvga-council-list","project-langslow","project-plant-selector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.org.au\/plantselector\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plant\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.org.au\/plantselector\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plant"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.org.au\/plantselector\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plant"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ci.org.au\/plantselector\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ci.org.au\/plantselector\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ci.org.au\/plantselector\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}