Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus delegatensis subsp. delegatensis
Common name
Alpine ash, Gum-topped stringybark, White-top
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Wet or grassy forests at higher altitudes. ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park and nearby.
Notes
Tree to 90 m tall. Bark rough on the lower part of the trunk, often furrowed, stringy or fibrous, grey, grey-brown or red-brown, to black, sometimes with horizontal black scars. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons, often with scribbles. Branchlets glaucous or non-glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, glaucous or non-glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 4 or 5 pairs, 7-25 cm long, 27-100 mm wide, green to blue-green and dull, or glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7.5-25 cm long, 13-55 mm wide, green to blue-green, glossy. Flower clusters 7-15 flowered. Mature flower buds 4–6 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Summer-Autumn. Gumnuts 6-11 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Eucalyptus~delegatensis+subsp.~delegatensis (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_delegatensis_subsp._delegatensis.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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