Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Eucalyptus eugenioides

Common name

Thin-leaved stringybark, White stringybark

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Tree to 30 m tall.  Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, stringy, usually longitudinally fissured, grey to grey-brown or red-brown.  Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 5 to 10 pairs then alternating up the stems, 4.5-10 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, glossy green, paler below.  Growing tips, leaf margins, and midribs rough for many nodesAdult leaves alternating up the stems, 6.2-16 cm long, 9-35 mm wide, glossy to dull, green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 9-15 flowered.  Mature flower buds 4–8 mm long, caps as long as the base.  Flowers Winter-Summer.  Gumnuts 5-10 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~eugenioides  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

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