Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil - unlike some Western Australian plants this plant tolerates alkaline conditions. Requires little to no irrigation once established and is relatively frost hardy. Responds well to hard pruning and can be used as a large screen plant.

Eucalyptus steedmanii is a rare species comes from an isolated population in Western Australia. The name for the genus comes from the Greek words 'eu' meaning "well" and 'kalypto' meaning 'to cover' as with a lid and an allusion to the united calyx-lobes and petals that is called an operculum that forms a lid or cap that is shed when the flowers open. It was first described in 1933 by the English-born Western Australian botanist Charles Gardner in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia from a specimen collected by Henry Steedman in 1928 and the specific epithet honors the collector. It is also sometimes called Steedman's mallet.

There is a beautiful older specimen A large specimen can be found in Orpet Park (previously called Hillside Park) on the Santa Barbara Riviera and it was this beautiful plant that encouraged us to grow this species from 2008 until 2013. 

The information about Eucalyptus steedmanii that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.