Propagation
Surface sow fresh seed during spring in a well-drained media, and maintain a temperature of 16ş to 18ş C. (61ş to 64ş F). Prick out and pot up when they are large enough to handle.

This plant is resistantto Phytophthora cinnamomi.


Botanic information
Leaf: The reddish juvenile leaves are petiolate, broad ovate and are covered in short hairs. Intermediate leaves are ovate to broad-lanceolate and the mid green broad-lanceolate to lanceolate adult are slightly concolorous.

Flower: There are 3 to 7 red to white flowers arranged in a terminal corymbose panicle that appears during spring. The peduncle is up to 20mm (2in) long and the buds are ovoid shaped with hemispherical-apiculate opercula.

Fruit: The capsule is globular-urceolate and has a broad disc with 3 obscure deeply enclosed valves.

General pruning information
Eucalyptusspecies require little pruning apart from removal of damaged or dead wood, which should be taken off at the collar. If the tree is cut back hard it will produce epicormic shoots and the crown may be lifted or thinned by removal of selected branches.