Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus longifolia

Flowers, buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Eden

Gumnuts and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles

Tree. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Woollybutt

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, often on alluvial flats. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Tree to 35 m tall.  Bark rough on the trunk and branches more than 8 cm diameter, or rough on all but the smallest branches, thin, fibrous, irregularly cracked to tessellated or flaky ('box'), grey.  Smaller branches with smooth bark, shedding in short ribbons or flakes.  Juvenile stems square in cross section, sometimes winged.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for about 3–5 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 6.5-20 cm long, 20-90 mm wide, dull, green to grey-green.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 9-25 cm long, 8-35 mm wide, dull, green to grey-green or bluish.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 3-flowered, flowers usually hanging down.  Mature flower buds 14–27 mm long, caps at least as long as the base.  Flowers Autumn-Winter.  Gumnuts 9-16 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable. 

Hybrids are recorded with Eucalyptus parramattensis subsp. parramattensis.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~longifolia  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

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