Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus scoparia

Flowers, buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Bark. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, Mt Norman, Qld

Trees. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Burrendong Arboretum, near Wellington, NSW

Common name

Wallangara white gum, Willow gum

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Sydney area. Gardens and roadsides. Occurs naturally in open forest, woodland, and heath, in rocky areas, Northern Tablelands of  NSW and southern Queensland.

Notes

Introduced tree to 15 m tall.  Bark smooth throughout, powdery, shedding in strips.  Old trees occasionally with rough bark at the base. Juvenile stems usually cylindrical.  Juvenile leaves opposite to almost opposite each other for many pairs, stalkless to shortly stalked, 4–10 cm long, 6–18 mm wide, glossy, green.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6–16 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, glossy, green.  Flowers white or cream, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7 flowered.  Mature flower buds 4-5 mm long, caps as long as the base.  Flowers spring.  Gumnuts 4-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have slightly protruding or protruding valves. 

Vulnerable Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10315 accessed 21 April 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~scoparia  accessed 21 April 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_scoparia.htm  (accessed 21 April 2021)