Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus paliformis

Dried specimen. Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany, USA. Collected by LAS Johnson & DF Blaxell, Wadbilliga National Park

Trees. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, unknown place

Common name

Wadbilliga ash

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Mostly Deua and Wadbilliga National Parks and nearby.

Notes

Tree to 12 m tall.  Bark smooth throughout, shedding in ribbons.  Sometimes with a short stocking of compacted grey bark on old trees.  Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, warty.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 3 to 5 leaf pairs then alternating up the stems, 6.5-11 cm long, 15-20 mm wide, glossy, green.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6.2-13 cm long, 9-20 mm wide, glossy, green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 7-flowered  Mature flower buds 4–8 mm long, caps shorter than the base.  Flowers Autumn-Winter.  Gumnuts 5-7 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~paliformis  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

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