Book ID: 117903
French, Malcolm and Dean Nicolle
Eucalypts of the Goldfields of Western Australia. 2025. ca 1200 col. figs. 368 p. gr8vo.
This book incorporates the world-renowned GREAT WESTERN WOODLANDS and the Western Australian section of the amazing GREAT VICTORIA DESERT
173 different eucalypts species and subspecies occur across this special region..
158 eucalypts described over a double page, 15 marginal eucalypts more briefly.
Comprising many of Australia’s favourites including Eucalyptus woodwardii (lemon-flowered gum), E. torquata (coral gum), E. websteriana (heart-leaved mallee), E. youngiana (large-fruited mallee), E. rosacea (rosacea mallee), E. brockwayi (Dundas mahogany), etc.
Designed and written for those with no botanical training, but also catering for the professional, this book will be most valuable for all those interested in appreciating, identifying and growing the unique eucalypts of Western Australia’s Goldfields.
The book covers a vast area of 640 square kilometers, 25% of the land mass of WA, centered on Kalgoorlie from Meekatharra in the north-west to the SA border in the east, to the Esperance Shire in the south, to the wheatbelt and Murchison regions in the west.