Silver Dollar Tree Eucalyptus Cinerea

Bark is reddish brown peeling on smaller stems.

Silver dollar tree eucalyptus cinerea.

The leaves are round fragrant and an attractive silver color hence the common name silver dollar tree. It is a broadleaf evergreen tree that will grow as a single trunk tree to 25 60 tall in its native habitat. Eucalyptus cinerea sku 3256 attractive blue green coin shaped juvenile leaves opposite on the pendulous stems excellent for adding to bouquets and cut ornamental arrangements. Los angeles county arboretum arcadia ca cal poly campus san luis obispo ca and sacramento ca.

Eucalyptus cinerea or the silver dollar tree has very distinctive circular bluey green leaves though they can mature as more sickle shaped. Please change that on the overall plant entry. 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. Silver dollar tree is a small evergreen tree or shrub native to australia.

The adult leaves are long narrow and mid green. The aromatic foliage is silvery blue green and rounded when juvenile resembling large coins. Native to southeastern australia. Eucalyptus cinerea commonly called argyle apple or silver dollar tree is native to australia.

Although reaching 15metres in the wild it rarely grows past 10 metres in domestic settings. Cinerea is hardy well into zones 7 and 8 too. 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. It is very fast growing is of a naturally twisted or gnarled habit and bears creamy flowers in mid summer.

It can grow rapidly 6 8 feet in one season. A choice evergreen rounded shrub or shade tree withstanding heat dry conditions and wind when established. With round and silvery leaves that are present year round the silver dollar eucalyptus lives up to its name.