Minni ritchi bark on an acacia in the Pilbara region of Western Australia Minni ritchi bark of ''Eucalyptus crucis'' near Wongan Hills Red Mulga

Minni ritchi is a type of reddish-brown

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that continuously peels in small curly flakes, leaving the tree looking like it has a coat of red curly hair. Brooker and Kleinig (1990) formally described it as a bark type in which "the outer rich, red-brown smooth bark splits both longitudinally and horizontally, the free edges rolling back without completely detaching to expose new green bark beneath". A number of species of ''

Acacia ''Acacia'', commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australasia. The genus na ...

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Eucalyptus ''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as euca ...

'' have minni ritchi bark, including: * ''

Acacia curranii ''Acacia curranii'', also known as curly-bark wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Juliflorae'' that is native to north eastern Australia. It is listed as vulnerable under the '' Environment Protection and Biod ...

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Acacia cyperophylla ''Acacia cyperophylla'', commonly known as creekline miniritchie or red mulga, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. The species' range extends across arid and semi-arid regions of Central Australia, from Carnarvon in Western Australia to western Q ...

'' (creekline miniritchie) * ''

Acacia delibrata ''Acacia delibrata'' is a perennial shrub or tree growing to 9m in height, with a distinctive "minni ritchi" bark, flowering from April to June and in October. It is native to tropical Western Australia. It is not listed as being a threatened sp ...

'' * '' Acacia gracillima'' * '' Acacia grasbyi'' (miniritchie) * ''

Acacia monticola ''Acacia monticola'', commonly known as red wattle, gawar, curly-bark wattle, curly-bark tree and hill turpentine, is a species of plant in the legume family that is native to northern Australia. Indigenous Australians have other names for the ...

'' * '' Acacia rhodophloia'' * '' Acacia trachycarpa'' * ''

Eucalyptus caesia ''Eucalyptus caesia'', commonly known as caesia or gungurru, is a species of mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth reddish brown bark at first, later shedding in curling flakes, lance-shaped, sometimes curv ...

'' (gungurru, 'Silver Princess') * ''

Eucalyptus crucis ''Eucalyptus crucis'' is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. There are three subspecies, commonly known as silver mallee or Southern Cross mallee, (subspecies ''crucis''), narrow-leaved silver mallee, (subsp. ''lanceolata'' ...

'' (narrow-leaved silver mallee) * '' Eucalyptus minniritchi'' * '' Eucalyptus orbifolia''

References

* {{cite book, author1=Brooker, M.I.H. , author2=Kleinig, D.A. , name-list-style=amp , year=1990, title=Field Guide to Eucalypts, Volume 2: South-western and Southern Australia, publisher=Inkata Press, Melbourne, isbn=0-909605-59-9 Plant morphology Plant common names