Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus viminalis subsp. viminalis
Common name
Manna gum, Ribbon gum, White gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland, usually near streams on the coast, but more widespread at higher altitudes. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, tablelands, and ranges. Occasionally coastal.
Notes
Tree to 90 m tall. Bark smooth throughout or with a thick stocking of rough bark consistently to 2-6 m above the base. Rough bark shortly fibrous, hard, and platy, grey, brown, or black. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons, often powdery. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section, smooth or warty. Juvenile leaves stalkless and opposite each other for many pairs, 2.5-15 cm long, 5-35 mm wide, dull, green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8-23.2 cm long, 8-40 wide, glossy or dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 3-flowered. Mature flower buds 5–9 mm long, caps about as long as the base. Flowers Summer-Autumn. Gumnuts 4-11 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have strongly protruding valves.
Hybridises with Eucalyptus dalrympleana subsp. dalrympleana.
Eucalyptus viminalis in PlantNET.
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~viminalis (accessed 1 May 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_viminalis_subsp._viminalis.htm (accessed 1 May 2021)
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