Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus baueriana subsp. baueriana
Common name
Blue box, Round-leaved box
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland along streams, and in gullies. Coast and ranges. Few records between Bargo and Moruya.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Bark rough on the trunk and branches, fibrous-flaky ('box'), grey or mottled grey with white patches. Smooth bark shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section, warty or smooth, occasionally slightly glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 2 or 3 pairs then alternating up the stems, 3.5-10 cm long, 39–80 mm wide, dull or glossy green, or slightly glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5.3–10.5 cm long, 20–52 mm wide, dull or glossy, green or slightly glaucous. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Individual f lower clusters 7-flowered, forming compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets. Mature flower buds 3–6 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Outer stamens not producing pollen. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 4-7 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Eucalyptus baueriana in PlantNET.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~baueriana (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_baueriana.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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