Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus cephalocarpa
Common name
Mealy stringybark, Silver stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Coast and ranges south of Eden.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Bark rough throughout, on the trunk and large branches, or the branches smooth. Rough bark thick, fibrous, longitudinally fissured, grey or grey-brown over brown. Branchlets often glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, usually glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other and stalkless for many pairs, 2.5-8.5 cm long, 17-65 mm wide, dull, blue-green or grey-green to glaucous or occasionally green. Crown green, or silvery due to glaucous new tips growth. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8.5-25 cm long, 8-30 mm wide, glossy or dull, green to blue-green or grey-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7–11 flowered. Mature flower buds 3–8 mm long, caps as long as or much longer than the base. Flowers Summer-Winter. Gumnuts 4-8 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~cephalocarpa (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_cephalocarpa.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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