Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus perriniana
Common name
Spinning gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Grassy or shrubby woodland, often in moist places, at high altitudes. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and the Tinderry Range east of the ACT.
Notes
Tree or mallee to 20 m high. Bark usually smooth throughout, shedding in short ribbons. Sometimes with an irregular stocking of rough bark on the lower trunk of the largest individuals. Branchlets usually glaucous with leaf scars in rings around the stems. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, glaucous or non-glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other and usually fused at the base, the joined pairs 3.2–8.5 cm long, 50–100 mm wide, grey-green or slightly glaucous to highly glaucous. Dead juvenile leaves loosen from the stem and spin around it. Crowns of reproductive plants retain many juvenile leaves. Intermediate and adult leaves not always formed. Crown leaves opposite each other or alternating up the stems, 7–16.5 cm long, 12–52 mm wide, bases joined together or tapering to the leaf stalks, dull, green to grey-green or glaucous. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flowers in 3-flowered clusters, usually paired. Mature flower buds 5–7 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Gumnuts 5–8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~perriniana (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_perriniana.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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