Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus camfieldii
Common name
Camfield's Stringybark, Heart-leaved Stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland and heath. Coastal north from Royal National Park and nearby. Rarely Blue Mountains.
Notes
Tree or mallee to 10 m tall. Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, stringy, fissured, grey to brown or red. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough. Juvenile leaves with the lowest leaves opposite each other, soon alternating up the stems, 2.5-4.2 cm long, 23-35 mm wide, smooth and glossy mid-green on the upper surface, paler green and on lower surface. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6-11 cm long, 18-40 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 9-15 flowered. Mature flower buds 6-10 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 6-11 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable or valves with only the tips protruding.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the 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=10287 (accessed 5 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~camfieldii (accessed 5 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_camfieldii.htm (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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