Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus amplifolia subsp. amplifolia

Flower buds and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Gumnuts. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Trees. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, unknown place

Common name

Cabbage gum

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Grassy woodland and along streams, on deeper, loamy soils, usually on low sites. North of Batemans Bay. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Tree to 30 m tall.  Bark smooth throughout or with loose greyish rough slabs at the base of the trunk.  Smooth bark becomig granular on the trunk with age, shedding in large flakes or plates.  Juvenile stems square in cross section and prominently winged on younger growth.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs then alternating up the stems, 5-22 cm long, 35-180 mm wide, held conspicuously horizontally, glossy or dull, green.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7.5-25 cm long, 15-70 mm wide, glossy or dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7- to about 20-flowered.  Mature flower buds 8-20 mm long, caps much longer than the base.  Flowers Spring-Summer.  Gumnuts 4-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that protrude strongly. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Eucalyptus~amplifolia+subsp.~amplifolia  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_amplifolia_subsp._amplifolia.htm  (accessed 22 January, 2021)