Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus nortonii

Flower buds and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A Lyne, Tharwa, ACT

Gumnuts. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A Lyne, Tharwa, ACT

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Mt Ainslie, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Bundy, Long-leaved box

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grassy areas, and rocky sites. Tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and Western Slopes.

Notes

Tree to 15m tall.  Bark rough, on all but the smallest branches or on the trunk and branches more than 8 cm diameter, fibrous-flaky or box-type, becoming coarse and thick, sometimes deeply fissured, grey-brown or mottled grey and whitish.  Smaller branches smooth, shedding in short ribbons.  Branchlets glaucous.  Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, glaucous.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other and stalkless for many pairs, 2.5-11 cm long, 30-100 mm wide, conspicuously glaucous.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8.5-30 cm long, 15-40 mm wide, dull, blue-green or grey-green to glaucous.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 7-flowered, stalks thick and flattened.  Mature flower buds 7-13 mm long, caps shorter than the base, glaucous.  Flowers most of the year.  Gumnuts 5-10 mm in diameter, often slightly angled. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable. 

Hybridises with Eucalyptus goniocalyx and Eucalyptus rubida subsp. rubida.

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=sp&name=Eucalyptus~nortonii  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

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