Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus beyeriana

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

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

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

Trunks. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, Port Lincoln to Cummins, SA

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Burrendong Arboretum, near Wellington

Common name

 Beyer's Ironbark

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Woodland. North of Jervis Bay. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Tree to 25 m high. Bark rough throughout, `ironbark', grey-black. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs, then alternating up the stems, 5.5–9 cm long, 10-15 mm wide, dull, green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6–14 cm long, 7-20 mm wide, dull, green to grey-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 7-flowered, forming compound Flower clusters at the ends of the branchlets, rarely single flower clusters at the leaf bases just below. Mature flower buds 3–5 mm long, caps shorter than the base. The outer ring of stamens not producing polllen. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 3–6 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.

Eucalyptus beyeri in EUCLID.

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

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