Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus acmenoides
Common name
White mahogany
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Wet forest and woodland. Mainly Sydney area.
Notes
Tree to 50 m tall. Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, grey to red-brown, thin, fibrous, stringy, held in flattish strips rather than in a typical stringybark. Juvenile stems stem rounded in cross section, smooth. Juvenile leaves 5–12.5 cm long, 13–57 mm wide, opposite each other and stalkless for many pairs, later alternating up the stems and becoming stalked, glossy, green, upper side darker than the lower side. Leaves become alternate at about knee-high. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6.2–15.7 cm long, 9–50 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7–15-flowered, rarely more. Mature flower buds 5–7 mm long, caps at least as long as the base. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 4–9 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Sometimes hybridises with Eucalyptus pilularis.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~acmenoides (accessed 1 May 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_acmenoides.htm (accessed 1 May 2021)
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