Silver Dollar Tree Eucalyptus Cinerea
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Silver dollar tree eucalyptus cinerea. This aromatic tree is a great means of bringing a refreshing smell and blue gray beauty into your home as well simply clip some branches off and arrange indoors. Silver dollar tree is a small evergreen tree or shrub native to australia. 30 foot tall specimens grow in the piedmont of nc and even into zone 7a perhaps even 6b this plant would be killed back to its roots each winter and then have tall fast watersprout regrowth in summer. It is a broadleaf evergreen tree that will grow as a single trunk tree to 25 60 tall in its native habitat.
With round and silvery leaves that are present year round the silver dollar eucalyptus lives up to its name. The bark is reddish brown and peels on smaller stems and becomes gray and stringy on the trunk as the tree matures. With rounded or heart shaped silver gray leaves the silver dollar plant eucalyptus cinerea makes a striking visual statement in your garden whether you grow it as an annual 6 foot bushy shrub. Native to southeastern australia.
The aromatic foliage is silvery blue green and rounded when juvenile resembling large coins. A choice evergreen rounded shrub or shade tree withstanding heat dry conditions and wind when established. Argyle apple silver dollar tree eucalyptus cinerea argyle apple is an evergreen tree of rounded habit boasting a lovely fibrous or furrowed reddish brown bark which peels on smaller stems. The adult leaves are long narrow and mid green.
Eucalyptus cinerea commonly called argyle apple or silver dollar tree is native to australia. Eucalyptus cinerea or the silver dollar tree has very distinctive circular bluey green leaves though they can mature as more sickle shaped. It is very fast growing is of a naturally twisted or gnarled habit and bears creamy flowers in mid summer. Bark is reddish brown peeling on smaller stems.
It can grow rapidly 6 8 feet in one season. Although reaching 15metres in the wild it rarely grows past 10 metres in domestic settings. Please change that on the overall plant entry.