Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus baeuerlenii

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

Gumnuts on stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, unknown place

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Denise Grieg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Mallees. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, Sugarloaf Mountain, NSW

Common name

Baeuerlen's gum

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Wet forest or woodland in sheltered often sloping sites. Between west of Ulladulla and Wadbilliga National Park. Ranges and tablelands.

Notes

Mallee or tree to 20 m tall.  Bark smooth throughout, shedding in long ribbons.  Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section, warty or smooth.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 10-15 pairs, then alternating up the stems, but often reverting for a few pairs, stalkless or stalked, 3.5-8 cm long, 13-28 mm wide, green or slightly grey-green, dull.  Adult leaves 7-17.5 cm long, 6-30 mm wide, glossy or dull, green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 3-flowered.  Mature flower buds 7–10 mm long, caps shorter than the base.  Flowers autumn and spring.  Gumnuts 6-12 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have strongly protruding valves. 

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

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