Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Eucalyptus botryoides
Bangalay, Southern mahogany
Myrtaceae
Dry forest, woodland, alluvial flats, gullies, and coastal dunes. Coast, ranges, Southern Highlands, and the Sydney area. Planted elsewhere.
Tree to 40 m tall. Bark on the trunk and larger branches rough, thick, fibrous, held in coarse plates or strips, often fissured, grey to brown or red-brown. Smooth bark shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs, then alternating up the stems, 6.5-11.5 cm long, 24-58 mm wide, glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 10-22 cm long, 20-70 mm wide, glossy, green, darker green above, paler below. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-11 flowered. Mature flower buds 7–14 mm long, caps shorter than the bases. Flowers Summer. Gumnuts 5-9 mm in diameter, often angled longitudinally. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
It intergrades with Eucalyptus saligna, which is mostly smooth-barked. Many populations in the area covered by this key (e.g. in Kangaroo Valley) cannot be assigned to either species.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~botryoides (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_botryoides.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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