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When a Corymbia ficifolia flowering gum is in full summer bloom, there is nothing else like it in the Australian garden. The dense, rounded crown becomes an explosion of colour — scarlet, coral-pink, vibrant orange, or the rarest fairy-floss pink — at exactly the time of year when most other flowering plants are struggling in the heat. Nectar-feeding birds arrive in numbers. Bees work the flowers constantly. The visual impact from the street or across the garden is extraordinary. It is one of the most spectacular flowering events in the Australian native plant world. The challenge with Corymbia ficifolia — the Western Australian red flowering gum — has historically been that growing it from seed in eastern Australia was a gamble. Flower colour is genetically complex and unpredictable in seedling-raised plants: you might plant a tree expecting brilliant red blooms and wait five years only to discover pale orange or pink flowers instead. Growing from seed in eastern states also produced trees with variable performance in the more humid conditions of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland, where the species' natural preference for the sandy, low-humidity conditions of south-western Western Australia put it at a disadvantage. Grafting changed everything. By selecting outstanding clones with known, consistent flower colour and grafting them onto robust rootstocks — primarily Corymbia maculata (Spotted Gum) or Corymbia ptychocarpa (Swamp Bloodwood) — breeders have produced flowering gums that are colour-reliable, more adaptable to eastern Australian soils and humidity, more compact in size, and more reliably floriferous from an early age. A grafted Corymbia is a fundamentally better garden tree than a seedling-grown specimen, which is why our horticultural team stocks exclusively grafted varieties in this collection. At Online Plants, we stock eight Corymbia varieties spanning the full colour spectrum — from the deepest scarlet red of Baby Scarlet and Wildfire, through