Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus gregsoniana

Flowers, buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Gumnuts and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Michael Crisp, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Mallee. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, Bell to Lithgow

Common name

Wolgan snowgum, Mallee snow gum

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Mallee heath on sandy soils of limited drainage in elevated areas. Ranges and tablelands north from Wadbilliga National Park.

Notes

Mallee to 5 m tall or sometimes a small tree.  Bark smooth throughout, shedding in ribbons.  Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, warty or smooth.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other and almost stalkless for 5 or 6 pairs, then alternating up the stems, stalked, 5.5-13 cm long, 10-45 mm wide, dull, grey-green.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5.5-12 cm long, 8-25 mm wide, glossy, green to grey-green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 7-11 flowered.  Mature flower buds 4–9 mm long, caps shorter than the base.  Flowers Spring-Summer.  Gumnuts 6-9 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~gregsoniana  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

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