Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Corymbia eximia
Common name
Yellow bloodwood
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland. Coast and ranges north from Ulladulla.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, tessellated, fibrous-flaky, yellow-brown to yellow and grey. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough for up to about 10 nodes. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 3 to 6 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 4-21 cm long, 25-80 mm wide, peltate at least to about node 15, surfaces green to grey-green, dull, rough for up to about 10 nodes. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 10-24 cm long, 17-60 mm wide, slightly glossy or dull, green to grey-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Mature flower buds 10–15 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flower clusters 7-flowered, forming compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets. Flowers Spring. Gumnuts 10-16 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Corymbia~eximia (accessed 19 April 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/corymbia_eximia.htm (accessed 19 April 2021)
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