Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus blaxlandii
Common name
Blaxland's stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest. North from Wadbilliga National Park. Ranges and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 35 m tall. Bark rough on the trunk and branches larger than 10 cm diameter, or rough throughout, stringy, dark brown to red-brown, grey-brown, or grey. Smaller branches with smooth bark, shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 6 or 7 pairs then alternating up the stems, 4-8 cm long, 15-40 mm wide, glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours, rough for many nodes. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6-12 cm long, 13-27 mm wide, dull to slightly glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 9- about 15 flowered. Mature flower buds 5–8 mm long, caps as long as the base. Flowers Spring and Autumn. Gumnuts 7-13 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~blaxlandii (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_blaxlandii.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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