Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Corymbia maculata
Common name
Spotted gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest. Mainly coastal. Naturalised in Vic beyond its native range in the Tara Range near Melbourne.
Notes
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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