Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Corymbia citriodora
Common name
Lemon-scented gum, Spotted gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Planted. Occasionally naturalised on roadsides and in gardens. Coast and ranges north from Wollongong. Occasionally elsewhere.
Naturally occurring north from Coffs Harbour.
Notes
Introduced tree to 50 m tall. Bark smooth, often powdery, shedding in thin curling flakes. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough to bristly. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 2-3 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 8-21 cm long, 32-80 mm wide, bases usually peltate for many nodes, green, rough to bristly for many nodes. Adult leaves often lemon-scented when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 7–23 cm long, 6–35 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. flower buds 6-10 mm long, caps shorter than the bases. Flower clusters 3-flowered, several clusters together forming compound clusters at the bases of the leaves. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 7-12 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Corymbia citriodora subsp. citriodora in Vic. (accessed 19 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Corymbia~citriodora (accessed 19 April 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/corymbia_citriodora.htm (accessed 19 April 2021)
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