Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus behriana

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

Gumnuts. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Brooker and Kleinig, place not stated

Mallee. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker and Kleinig, north of Port Lincoln, SA

Line drawings. c. juvenile (right) and adult (left) leaves; bud and gumnuts. KR Thiele, Australian National Herbarium, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Bull Mallee

Family

Myrtaceae 

Where found

Mallee shrubland. Western Slopes.

Notes

Tree or mallee to 12 m tall. Bark rough on the lower trunk, fibrous to fibrous-flaky or tessellated (box-type), dark brown to black. Upper trunk and branches smooth, shedding in ribbons.  Leaves alternating up the stems. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section. Juvenile leaves 5–10.5 cm long, 25–65 mm wide, dull, blue-green or grey-green to glaucous. Adult leaves 4.5-13 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, glossy green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flowers in 3-7 flowered clusters, forming moderately large compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets, sometimes a few single flower clusters at the base of the upper leaves. Mature flower buds 3–7 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers spring-summer. Gumnuts 3–5 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.

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

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