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Eucalyptus caesia Benth.

Silver Princess, caesia, gungunnu, gungunnu

Climate known 64 photographs
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Summary

Eucalyptus caesia, commonly known as caesia or gungurru, is a species of mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth reddish brown bark at first, later shedding in curling flakes, lance-shaped, sometimes curved adult leaves, club-shaped flower buds covered with a waxy, bluish white bloom, pink stamens with yellow anthers and urn-shaped fruit.

Text from Wikipedia, “Eucalyptus caesia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of Eucalyptus are trees, often mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including Corymbia and Angophora, they are commonly known as eucalypts or "gum trees". More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Eucalyptus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
Benth.
Native to
Western Australia
Wild records
101 in range· 53 open

At a glance

Warmest month
32°C
Jan, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
364mm/yr
5 wet months · peak Jul 58 mm (CHELSA)
Light
16–53DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to March in the northern hemisphere (April to September at the habitat, southern). Habitat rain 364 mm a year, wettest July at 58 mm, driest December at 13 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 53 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 1.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to March in the northern hemisphere (April to September at the habitat, southern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the year's rain (257 mm of 364 mm) falls in April to September, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 13.5 °C against a yearly mean of 17.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: October to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 364 mm a year, wettest July at 58 mm, driest December at 13 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

364 mm a year at the habitat, 257 mm of it April to September. Wettest month July at 58 mm, driest December at 13 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 309 mm to 830 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 53 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 53 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 15, the highest 90th-percentile month 54).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 1.4 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 1.4 °C, the absolute minimum -2.1 °C, 19 frost nights in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 41.7 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 5.7 °C in July (across the envelope cells 5.2 °C to 9.2 °C), warmest day 31.6 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 1.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 49 to 59% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 15 °C in Jul to 32 °C in Jan; mean night from 6 °C in Jul to 18 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 364 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 57 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -2.1 °C and the 99th-percentile day 41.7 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°50°frost41.7° 99th-percentile day (undated)-2.1° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200mm rainDLI 16–53RH 49–59 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 57 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C32 / 29–3431 / 29–3329 / 26–3024 / 23–2620 / 19–2116 / 15–1815 / 14–1616 / 15–1719 / 17–2123 / 20–2527 / 23–2929 / 26–32
Night °C18 / 15–1918 / 15–1916 / 14–1713 / 12–1510 / 9–127 / 7–106 / 5–96 / 5–98 / 7–1110 / 9–1214 / 12–1516 / 14–17
Rain mm19 / 13–2415 / 14–2023 / 19–2824 / 19–3946 / 38–10653 / 39–16658 / 42–16647 / 37–13029 / 19–8519 / 14–4318 / 15–3013 / 9–16
DLI53 / 51–5347 / 45–4739 / 37–4029 / 26–3020 / 18–2116 / 15–1817 / 16–1823 / 21–2431 / 29–3342 / 39–4449 / 46–5053 / 51–54
RH %49 / 44–5249 / 46–5250 / 48–5353 / 51–5656 / 55–5858 / 57–6159 / 58–6158 / 56–6156 / 53–5952 / 48–5750 / 46–5449 / 45–53

Each figure is the median across the 57 grid cells holding the 69 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2436:5952 (-31.825, 117.625). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -2.1 °C, 1st-percentile night 1.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 41.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 57 distinct grid cells holding the 69 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2436:5952 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -32.00_117.500, lapse-corrected -22 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 246 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWestern Australia
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-31.8, 117.6 · in the densest population, 73 records (72% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 101 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 53 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 47 km away. 51 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 32 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 101 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) John Tann, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Em Lamond, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Tyler Anthony, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Eucalyptus caesia, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Estimates of gene flow in forest trees
Diddahally R. Govindaraju (1989) · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Cladistic and Phenetic Analyses of Phylogenetic Relationships Among Populations of Eucalyptus caesia
Stephen D. Hopper, Mark A. Burgman (1983) · Australian Journal of Botany
Chemical constituents of Eriococcus confusus Maskell. I. The quinonoid pigments
A. D. Chan, WD Crow (1966) · Australian Journal of Chemistry
Operculum development in theEudesmieae B eucalypts andEucalyptus caesia (Myrtaceae)
Andrew N. Drinnan, Pauline Y. Ladiges (1989) · Plant Systematics and Evolution
Primary pollinator exclusion has divergent consequences for pollen dispersal and mating in different populations of a bird‐pollinated tree
Nicole Bezemer, Stephen D. Hopper, Siegy L. Krauss, Ryan D. Phillips (2019) · Molecular Ecology
Hydrological and thermal responses of seeds from four co-occurring tree species from southwest Western Australia
Rajapakshe P V G S W Rajapakshe, Shane R. Turner, Adam T. Cross, Sean Tomlinson (2020) · Conservation Physiology

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Eucalyptus 12 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
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gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 20 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.