Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Corymbia maculata
Spotted gum
Myrtaceae
Forest. Mainly coastal. Naturalised in Vic beyond its native range in the Tara Range near Melbourne.
Tree to 60 m tall. Bark smooth throughout, powdery, sometimes becoming granular with age, shedding in small irregular flakes giving a spotted appearance. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough for the first 6-8 nodes. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 2 or 3 pairs then alternating up the stems, 7-23 cm long, 30-105 mm wide, green, rough for the first 6-8 nodes, leaves on the lower nodes peltate. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8-21 cm long, 12-30 mm wide, slightly glossy or dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Mature flower buds 8-11 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flower clusters 3 flowered, rarely 7-flowered, several clusters together forming compound clusters arising from the bases of the leaves. Flowers Autumn-Spring. Gumnuts 8-13 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Corymbia~maculata (accessed 19 April 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/corymbia_maculata.htm (accessed 19 April 2021)
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