Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus baxteri
Common name
Brown stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, and coastal headlands and dunes. South of Pambula. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 40 m tall, sometimes a multi-stemmed shrub on exposed sites. Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, stringy, grey to brown-grey. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough at first. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs, stalkless to shortly stalked, 2.5-10.5 cm long, 13-75 mm wide, glossy green, the first few leaves rough, upper leaves smooth. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6–15 cm long, 15-55 mm wide, glossy green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-15 flowered. Mature flower buds 5-10 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers winter-summer. Gumnuts 6-18 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~baxteri (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_baxteri.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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