Corymbia maculata (spotted gum)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Corymbia maculata, photographed by Julie Overton — fig. a Julie Overton, CC0 1.0 / 2017-07-18 / obs. 198309885

Corymbia maculata, photographed by Chris Clarke — fig. b Chris Clarke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74922820

Corymbia maculata, photographed by Ely Wallis — fig. c Ely Wallis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182522352

Corymbia maculata, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio — fig. d Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182816908

Corymbia maculata, photographed by Jon Sullivan — fig. e Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1008690

Corymbia maculata, photographed by Peter B — fig. f Peter B, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182525046

Corymbia maculata, photographed by Ann Bentley — fig. h Ann Bentley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42055441

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Corymbia maculata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New South Wales	NSW	AUSTRALASIA
Queensland	QLD
Victoria	VIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 603 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	5.6 °C	8.3 °C	11.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	22.9 °C	24.4 °C	28.2 °C
Annual rainfall	655 mm	972 mm	1,271 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	86 mm	170 mm	230 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 603 research-grade observations of Corymbia maculata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Corymbia henryi (S.T.Blake) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson
Eucalyptus henryi S.T.Blake
Eucalyptus maculata Hook.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol EUMA23. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.