Mallee is the growth
habit of certain
eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground
lignotuber, usually to a height of no more than . It is most common in plants of the
genus Eucalyptus, many of which naturally grow in a mallee habit, and some of which grow as single-stemmed
trees initially but recover in mallee form if burnt to the ground by
bushfire. It also occurs in the closely related genera
Corymbia and
Angophora. The word
mallee may also be used as a
noun in reference to species or individual plants with a mallee habit.