Mallee, again...

On my way back from Port Lincoln, you can do it either by driving 700km around the top of Spencer's Gulf -named by Matthew Flinders after an ancestor of Princess Di, the 2nd Lord Spencer, who was Lord of the Admiralty in 1801,-to Adelaide which is only 250km east, or by taking the car ferry at Cowell, and cutting off 4-5 hours driving at the cost of about AUD140, I stopped for a constitutional near a silo. This is cropping country, like Yorke Peninsula, but the crops are not as good this year as those on Yorke Peninsula. This is mallee country, like most of South Australia's good cropping country. When I say good, it is not the European or American sense of heavy yielding. Here good means 1-2 tonnes an acre. This is the mallee, a small one, that is common in these parts.

Young fruit, red twigs, very similar to E. calycogona, but I don't think this one is that species. These trees were not flowering.

Old fruit, dark twigs.
Another specimen.
This is the other side of the road. These silos are the only places along this road where mobile telephone reception is any good. They also provide landmarks of towns, in an othersie very flat landscape.