Eucalyptus pyriformis

taxobox
name = Pear-fruited mallee, Dowerin Rose

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image_caption = "Eucalyptus pyriformis"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Myrtales
familia = Myrtaceae
genus = "Eucalyptus"
species = "E. pyriformis"
binomial = "Eucalyptus pyriformis"
binomial_authority = Turcz.|

"Eucalyptus pyriformis", Pear-fruited mallee", "Dowerin Rose, is a small, straggly mallee with smooth, grey or salmon-pink bark often sheeding in ribbons at the base. Juvenile leaves are stalked, alternate, ovate , to 9 x 5 cm. Adult leaves are stalked, broad-lanceolate to 9.5 x 3.2 cm, concolorous dull, grey to grey-green with a firm texture. Flowers are red or creamy white in mid winter to mid-spring. Fruit hangs on long stalks, is ribbed and funnel shaped to 4 x 5.5cm.

The distribution is limited to the western part of the northern Western Australian wheatbelt, from north-west of Geraldton, south to Dowerin, usually on white sandplains.

"E. pyriformis" is distinctive for its large, pendulous buds and spectacular coloured flowers. [Brooker, I. & Kleinig, D., "Eucalyptus, An illustrated guide to identification", Reed Books, Melbourne, 1996]

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