Eucalyptus ebbanoensis       0

Author: Joseph Henry Maiden (1859-1925)
Family: Myrtaceae Subfamily: Myrtoideae Tribe: Eucalypteae
Genus: Eucalyptus Subgenus: Eudesmia Section: Ebbanoenses
English name: Sandplain mallee
Zone: Australia

Description
This species has a patchy distribution. Its occurrences are the cities of Austin, Avon, Coolgardie, Helms, in the plains or in the rocky hills. The substrate is very draining and composed of acid sand, gravelly silt and clay subsoil. It should be noted that it grows best as a multiple trunk. It is a drought tolerant Eucalyptus and resistant to most frosts. He doesn't like the stagnant water at his feet.
Eucalyptus ebbanoensis Observed in Australia by Dean Nicolle (license)
Botanical Description
It is considered a shrub or a small tree. It occurs with a single stem or sometimes several stems resulting from a lignotuber. Its bark is sometimes rough at the base and smooth on the upper part of the trunk, gray to gray-brown in color, which flakes off in summer and reveals its new brown bark in autumn. The young branches are reddish.

The juvenile leaves are opposite then alternate, petiolate, ovate and pubescent. The adult leaves are 8-11cm long and 1.5cm wide, mostly alternate, sometimes opposite, narrowly lanceolate to finely falcate. Dull green to medium glossy.

The inflorescence is simple, axillary, composed of 3 flowers, with a peduncle from 1cm long. The buds are 1cm long and 0.8cm wide, pyriform, petiolate. Hemispherical operculum. The flowers reach a diameter of 1.8cm, the stamens are white to cream, abundant and remarkable.

The fruits are 1cm high and so wide. They are cup-shaped, petiolate, red-brown in color, glossy, with exserted valves. The seeds are retained in the fruit, the black ones are smaller than the brown ones. These germinate easily.

Member of
The Genus: Eucalyptus Subgenus: Eudesmia Section: Ebbanoenses having the following characters: Cotyledons reniform in shape and folded and clasped in the embryo, juvenile leaves usually with stellate hairs, buds with the calyx fused to the corolla and evident as four small teeth at the apex of the bud—within the subgenus Eudesmia, Sections Limbatae and Complanatae have free calyx lobes evident as four small teeth around the midline of the bud—stamens arranged in four bundles, and the presence of oil glands in the pith of the branchlets. Within this taxonomically complex subgenus, Eucalyptus ebbanoensis is the only species in section Ebbanoenses, distinguished by the almost complete lack of tertiary veining in the adult leaves and ovoid seeds that lack a marginal flange.
Useful plant
This species is valued for its honey, ideal for cultivation, it also has potential for wild spaces in arid and semi-arid areas.

References
- Encyclopedia of Australian Plants, Elliot W. Rodger & Jones David L. 2012 Vol. 4 pag. 84-85. ISBN
- Eucalypts of Australia. Eucalyptus ebbanoensis
References for the genus
- Encyclopedia of Australian Plants, Elliot W. Rodger & Jones David L. 2012. ISBN
- Seeds of woody plants in the United States, Schopmeyer Clifford Scharff and others. 1974 pag. 384-392. Address
- A general history of the dichlamydeous plants, comprising complete descriptions of the different orders, Don, George. 1831 Vol. 2. Address
- A new classification of sections and series in Eucalyptus subg. Eudesmia (Myrtaceae), Bayly, Michael and Mclay, Todd and Cantrill, David and Fowler, Rachael. Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany 2023 Vol. 41 pag. 50-54. DOI
- A new series, Incognitae, of Eucalyptus L'Her., including a new species endemic to Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Nicolle, D. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 1995 pag. 73-78. JStor
- A new species and a new combination in the shining peppermint group of Eucalyptus and notes on the distribution of Eucalyptus willisii sens. strict, Rule, K. Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany 2008 Vol. 26. DOI
- A revision of the Yellow Bloodwoods (Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus ser. Naviculares Maiden), Brooker, M.I.H and Bean, Tony. Austrobaileya 1991 Vol. 3 pag. 409-437. DOI
- A taxonomic revision of Eucalyptus wandoo, E. redunca and allied species (Eucalyptus series Levispermae Maiden - Myrtaceae) in Western Australia, Brooker, M. I. H. (Murray Ian Hill), and Hopper, Stephen D. Nuytsia 1991 Vol. 8 pag. 1-189. Address
- Eucalyptus revelata, a rare new species related to E. mooreana (Myrtaceae) from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Nicolle, Dean and Barrett, Russell L and others. Nuytsia 2018 Vol. 29 pag. 109-118. Address
- Eucalyptus wimmerensis revisited and notes on the morphologies and taxonomies of five Victorian mallee-boxes, Rule, K. Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany 2018 Vol. 37 pag. 39-64. DOI
- Five new endemic eucalypts for Victoria, Rule, K. Muelleria 2012 Vol. 30 pag. 83-105. DOI
- Four new species of Eucalyptus, S. T. Blake. Austrobaileya 1977 Vol. 1(1) pag. 1-9. JStor
- Four new species of ironbark (Eucalyptus L'Herit., Myrtaceae) from southern Queensland, Bean, Tony and M.I.H.Brooker,. Austrobaileya 1994 Vol. 4 pag. 187-194.
- Multivariate analysis of morphological variation in Eucalyptus series Psathyroxyla Blakely (Myrtaceae): taxonomic implications, Pfeil, BE and Henwood, MJ. Telopea 2004 Vol. 10(3) pag. 711-724. Address
- New subspecies in Eucalyptus caesia and in E. crucis (Myrtaceae) of Western Australia, Brooker, M. I. H. (Murray Ian Hill), and Hopper, S D. Nuytsia 1982 Vol. 4 pag. 113-128. Address
- New taxa and combinations in Eucalyptus and Angophora (Myrtaceae), Johnson, Lawrence and Hill, Kenneth. Telopea 1990 Vol. 4 pag. 37-108. DOI
- New taxa in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) for Victoria and notes on Victorian populations of Eucalyptus calycogona, Rule, K. Muelleria 2004 Vol. 20 pag. 9-32. DOI
- New taxa of Eucalyptus informal subgenus Symphyomyrtus (Myrtaceae), endemic to South Australia, Nicolle, Dean. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 2000 pag. 83-94. JStor
- Notes on Eucalyptus ser. Psathyroxyla Blakely (Myrtaceae) and other 'Ash group' eucalypts, Bean, Tony. Austrobaileya 1997 Vol. 5 pag. 125-135. DOI
- Notes on the narrow-leaved Ironbarks (Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus subseries Subglaucae), Bean, Tony. Austrobaileya 2005 Vol. 7 pag. 111-120. DOI
- Resolution of a 35-year taxonomic dilemma: Eucalyptus sp. Howes Swamp Creek (Myrtaceae) from eastern Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Bell, Stephen and Phillips, Gavin and Nicolle, Dean. Telopea 2022 Vol. 25 pag. 151-163. DOI
- Six new infraspecific taxa in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) for Victoria, Rule, K. Muelleria 2011 Vol. 29 pag. 3-15. DOI
- Systematic studies in the eucalypts — 3 New taxa and combinations in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae), Hill, Kenneth & Johnson, L. A. S. Telopea 1991 Vol. 4(2) pag. 223-267. Address
- Systematic studies in the eucalypts — 4 New taxa in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae), K.D. Hill & L-A.S. Johnson. Telopea 1991 Vol. 4(2) pag. 312-349. Address
- Systematic studies in the Eucalypts 5. new taxa and combination in eucalyptus myrtaceae in western australia, Hill, K.D.; Johnson, L.A.S. Telopea 1992 Vol. 4(4) pag. 561-634. Address
- Systematic studies in the eucalypts. 10. New tropical and subtropical eucalypts from Australia and New Guinea (Eucalyptus, Myrtaceae), Hill, KD and Johnson, LAS. Telopea 2000 Vol. 8(4) pag. 503-539. Address
- Systematic studies in the eucalypts. 6. A revision of the coolibahs, Eucalyptus subgenus; Symphyomyrtus section; Adnataria series; Oliganthae subseries; Microthecosae (Myrtaceae), Hill, KD and Johnson, LAS. Telopea 1994 Vol. 5(4) pag. 743-771. Address
- Systematic studies in the eucalypts. 8. A review of the eudesmioid eucalypts, Eucalyptus subgenus Eudesmia (Myrtaceae), Hill, KD and Johnson, LAS. Telopea 1998 Vol. 7(4) pag. 375-414. Address
- Systematic studies in the Eucalypts. 9. A review of series Sociales (Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus, Section Bisectaria, Myrtaceae), Hill, K.D. and Johnson, L.A.S. Telopea 1999 Vol. 8 (2) pag. 165-218. Address
- Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the Eastern grey boxes (Eucalyptus ser. Moluccanae Chippendale, Myrtaceae) and the reinstatement of Eucalyptus woollsiana R.T.Baker, Bean, Tony. Austrobaileya 2009 Vol. 8 pag. 25-34. DOI
- The Ironbarks Allied to Eucalyptus crebra F. Muell. and the Description of a New Species, E. quadricostata, in the Group, Brooker, M. Austrobaileya 1985 Vol. 2 pag. 148-152. DOI
- Three new Victorian species related to Eucalyptus aromaphloia L.D. Pryor and J.H. Willis and notes on the polymorphic nature of that species, Rule, K. Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany 1996 Vol. 9 pag. 133-143. DOI
- Two new mallee Eucalypts (Myrtaceae) from Gippsland, Victoria, Rule, K. and Molyneux, W.M. Muelleria 2011 Vol. 29 pag. 16-26. DOI
- Two new subspecific taxa within the Eucalyptus Series Argyrophyllae for Victoria, Rule, Kevin and Walsh, Neville. Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany 2017 Vol. 36 pag. 81-91. DOI
- Typification of some names in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae), Part 1, Bean, Tony. Telopea 2009 Vol. 12 pag. 309-319. DOI
- Typification of some names in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae), Part 2, Bean, Tony. Telopea 2010 Vol. 12 pag. 469-477. ResearchGate
- Typification of some names in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae), Part 3, Bean, Tony. Telopea 2010 Vol. 12 pag. 511-520. ResearchGate
- Hommes et Plantes. Vol. 58 pag. 34-41. Address
- PlantÆxoticA. 2015 Vol. 28 pag. 18-26. Address
- PlantÆxoticA. 2015 Vol. 21 pag. 4-19. Address
- PlantÆxoticA. 2015 Vol. 11 pag. 7-11. Address
- Vegetative propagation of Eucalyptus through cuttings, Banthia K. M., Joshi C. M., Venkata Reddy P. B. & Sinha J. P. Indian Pulp & Paper Technical Association 1988 Vol. 25(1) pag. 37-40. Address
General specifications
Biological type: tree
Frost resistance: 19ºF
Leaf color: dark green
Flower color: white
No transplantation: Yes
Reproduction mode: hermaphrodite plant whoes flowers produce both male and female gametes
IUCN Red List of threatened species status: Least Concern

Specifications for the Mediterranean basin
Adult size (h x w): 26,2ft x 16,4ft
Sun exposure: full sun (Sun hours: >6h
Foliage: evergreen
Growth: fast
Flowering time from March until May

Specific information for our garden
Planting substrate: 30%Compost+30%Coco+40%Sand
Plant watering: 1x a week pH 5.5
Logical sequence of containers for: Eucalyptus; forestry plate, forestry pot 3L, Airpot 12L, Airpot 50L, Airpot 800L
Propagation is done by cuttings

Ecology in its country of origin
Rainfall: 100-300mm
Gravelly soil: much
Clay soil: much
Sandy soil: much
Acidic soil: much
Draining soil: much
Sowing instructions
SPRING Select the largest and most fleshy BLACK seeds. Sow the seeds at 2mm depth in the Well Drained Seed Sowing Mix between 64-72°F. During germination keep the substrate moist and in daylight. The seeds germinate in 3-6 weeks. The viability of the seeds, kept under good conditions, is 10 years.
The average seed weight is 1408,5 per gram (0,00071g).

Germination references for the genus
- Seeds of woody plants in the United States, Schopmeyer Clifford Scharff and others. 1974 pag. 384-392. Address
- Eucalypt seed and sowing. Native Forest Silviculture Technical Bulletin 2010 Vol. 1. Address
- USDA Forest Service's Woody Plant Seed Manual, John K. Francis and Craig D.Whitesell. 2008. Address

Experiences in the garden
14-02-19A Obtaining seeds from seed provider Nindethana Seeds collected in 'Nindethana Seeds11>Bowgarder Nature Reserve'. (Wild origin)
03-03-20 Send a batch to nursery Railhet.
04-03-20 Sown 60 seeds in a seed plate F, they did not geminate in Serre3.
Protocol: Spring 2mm Sowing mix+Sand 59-68°F Damp substrate+Light 3-6w
10-03-21 Sown 30 seeds in a seed plate F, they did not geminate in Serre3.
Protocol: Spring Black Seed 2mm Sowing mix+Sand 59-68°F Damp substrate+Light 3-6w
10-05-22 Sown 30 seeds in a seed plate F, they did not geminate in Serre3.
Protocol: Spring Black Seed 2mm Sowing mix+Sand 68-77°F Damp substrate+Light 3w
14-03-23 Sown seeds in a seed plate F, they did not geminate in Serre3.
Protocol: Spring Black Seed 2mm Sowing mix+Sand 59-68°F Damp substrate+Light 3-6w