Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus apiculata
Common name
Narrow-leaved mallee ash
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Mallee shrubland on skeletal sandy soil on sandstone. North of Marulan. Coast, ranges and tablelands.
Notes
Mallee to 6 m tall. Bark smooth throughout. Juvenile stems rounded or slightly square in cross section, rough on the earlier growth. Juvenile leaves opposite each other, to 16 cm long, 8-20 mm wide, stalkless and stem-clasping for 3-4 pairs, then alternating up the stems, glossy, green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, glossy, green, 3.5-11 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, glossy green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-flowered. Mature flower buds 5-8 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Spring-Autumn. Gumnuts 6-10 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Intergrades with Eucalyptus stricta in the southern Blue Mountains.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~apiculata (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_apiculata.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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