Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus agglomerata
Common name
Blue-leaved stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest, often in hilly country. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and ACT.
Notes
Tree to 40 m tall. Bark fibrous or stringy throughout, variably furrowed, grey to brown or red-brown. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough at first, becoming smooth. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 3 to 6 pairs, initially on both surfaces, but soon smooth above and rough only on the margins and midrib, becoming hairless and alternating up the stems, 3.5-10 cm long, 20-55 mm wide, glossy, green. Crown usually blue-green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7-14 cm long, 13–30 mm wide, glossy to semi-glossy, green to blue-green. Flowers white or cream, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 11-21 flowered. Mature flower buds 6-8 mm long, caps at least as long as the bases. Flowers mainly Oct.–Jan. Gumnuts 5-10 mm in diameter, the sides flattened due to crowding. 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=Eucalyptus~agglomerata (accessed 1 May 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_agglomerata.htm (accessed 1 May 2021)
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