Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Corymbia gummifera

Flowers and buds. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer unknown, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Gumnuts and seeds. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Trunk. Photographer Neville Walsh, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Denise Grieg, East Kurrajong

Line drawings (as Eucalyptus gummifera). a. juvenile (right) and adult (left) leaves; buds and gumnuts. KR Thiele, Australian National Herbarium, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Red bloodwood

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and the eastern part of the tablelands.

Notes

Tree to 35 m tall, rarely a mallee. Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, or on the trunk and branches. Rough bark tessellated, predominantly grey or brown.  Smooth bark peeling.  Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 4 to 10 pairs, then alternating up the stems (but may revert for a few nodes), 9-16.5 cm long, 30-52 mm wide, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours, bases peltate for the first 8 to 10 nodes.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5.5-16 cm long, 15-50 mm wide, green, glossy or dull, upper and lower surfaces different colours.  Mature flower buds 8–12 mm long, caps shorter than the bases.  Flower clusters 7-flowered, forming compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets.  Flowers Summer-early Winter.  Gumnuts 9-18 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable. 

Rare Vic.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Corymbia~gummifera (accessed 19 April 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/corymbia_gummifera.htm  (accessed 19 April 2021)