Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus albens
Common name
White box
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland and grassy areas. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and tablelands. Blue Mountains.
Notes
Tree to 25 m high. Bark rough on most or all of the trunk and the base of the large branches, rarely extending to branches < 8 cm diameter, fibrous-flaky (`box'), often becoming tessellated, grey with whitish patches. Smooth bark of the branches shedding in short ribbons. Branchlets usually glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section, glaucous or non-glaucous. Leaves alternating up the stems. Juvenile leaves 5–10.5 cm long, 50–100 mm wide, blue-green, grey-green, blue-grey, or glaucous. Adult leaves 7–16.5 cm long, 17–55 mm wide, dull, blue-green, grey-green, blue-grey, or glaucous. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Individual flower clusters 7-flowered, forming large compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets, or single clusters at the bases of the leaves. Mature flower buds 8–18 mm long, caps as long the base. Flowering January to September. Gumnuts 5–10 mm in diameter, often slightly angled longitudinally. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~albens (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_albens.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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