Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus chapmaniana
Common name
Bogong gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and grassy areas. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Tree to 35 m tall. Bark on the trunk partly or completely rough, fibrous and finely fissured longitudinally, grey or brown-grey to red-brown. Branches smooth, shedding in long ribbons. Branchlets sometimes glaucous. Juvenile stem rounded in cross section, glaucous or non-glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other and stalkless for many pairs, 2–9.5 cm long, 18–70 mm wide, green, blue-green, or slightly glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 14–30 cm long, 17–48 mm wide, dull, green to blue-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Mature flower buds 7–9 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flower clusters 3-, rarely 7-flowered. Flowers Jan.–Mar. Gumnuts 7–11 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~chapmaniana (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_chapmaniana.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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