Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus benthamii
Common name
Camden white gum, Bentham's gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Wet to open forest on periodically flooded sites along valley floors. Western Sydney area and Blue Mountains from Richmond to Nattai National Park.
Notes
Tree to 40 m high. Bark usually smooth throughout, shedding in short ribbons or flakes. Often with rough, flaky, partially adherent bark at the base of the trunk. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, often slightly glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for many pairs, 3–9 cm long, 20–40 mm wide, stem-clasping, dull, blue- or grey-green to glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8–23 cm long, 12–27 mm wide, glossy or dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-flowered. Mature flower buds 3–5 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers throughout the year. Gumnuts 4–6 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10284 (accessed 5 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~benthamii (accessed 5 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_benthamii.htm (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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