Blue Mallee (Eucalyptus)
Eucalyptus polybractea
About Blue Mallee (Eucalyptus)
Blue Mallee (Eucalyptus) (Eucalyptus polybractea) is a herb used in the Aboriginal Australian Medicine tradition to help with Respiratory Issues, Fever, Headache, and Infection. The leaves and essential oil are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
The Blue mallee, Blue-leaved mallee or blue-leaved oil mallee, Eucalyptus polybractea (also formerly E. fruticetorum) is a small multi-trunked sclerophyll tree that grows naturally in western New South Wales around West Wyalong and in Central Victoria Whipstick Scrub north of Bendigo and similar patches of mallee at Inglewood, Wedderburn, Wychitella, St. Arnaud, Rushworth areas in Victoria, Australia. The bark is smooth, and fibrous near the trunk base. Leaves are disjunct and linear to narrow-lanceolate. Juvenile leaves...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist