Tree: Small Eucalyptus

One of the half dozen or so red flowering, out of 800 +/- Eucalyptus species, native to Australia. This specimen in the grounds of Carinya at Carindale.

This one reminds me of a mallee. It’s about two metres talll but may have been pruned to keep the flowers accessable.

Its leaves are unusual to me, in that they’re not hanging edgeward to the sun, which I thought was a feature of Eucalypts. But which could’ve been hybridised out of them.

I have an inkling that the red-flowering mallee has been hybrised to the nth, it being so suitable for small suburban gardens on account of its dwarfish growth habit.

[In the usual way, I may expand and edit after I have already posted, to be able to have something to put up. if you’ve got something to add, let me know in the comments? This is a one-fingered typing job, and I’ve mislaid the reference to Brisbane Eucalyptus trees]