Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus punctata

Dried specimen of flower buds and leaves. Missouri Botanic Garden, unknown collector, date and place

Trees. Photographer Brooker & Kleinig

Common name

Grey gum

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. North from Bawley Point. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Tree to 35 m tall.  Bark smooth throughout, becoming granular with age, shedding in large plates or flakes.  Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 3–5 pairs then alternating up the stems, 5.5-11.5 cm long, 15-35 mm wide, glossy or dull, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6-18 cm long, 14-37 mm wide, glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours.  Flower clusters 7-flowered, in single clusters arising from the bases of the leaves, or forming compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Mature flower buds 6–11 mm long, caps longer than the base.  Flowers Summer-Autumn.  Gumnuts 5-10 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or 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~punctata  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

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