Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Eucalyptus behriana

Common name

Bull Mallee

Family

Myrtaceae 

Where found

Mallee shrubland. Western Slopes.

Notes

Tree or mallee to 12 m tall. Bark rough on the lower trunk, fibrous to fibrous-flaky or tessellated (box-type), dark brown to black. Upper trunk and branches smooth, shedding in ribbons.  Leaves alternating up the stems. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section. Juvenile leaves 5–10.5 cm long, 25–65 mm wide, dull, blue-green or grey-green to glaucous. Adult leaves 4.5-13 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, glossy green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flowers in 3-7 flowered clusters, forming moderately large compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets, sometimes a few single flower clusters at the base of the upper leaves. Mature flower buds 3–7 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers spring-summer. Gumnuts 3–5 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=Eucalyptus~behriana (accessed 22 January, 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_behriana.htm  (accessed 22 January, 2021)