Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus conica
Common name
Fuzzy box
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Western Slopes. Woodland and grassy areas.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Bark rough on the trunk and on branches to about 8 cm diameter, box-type, often tessellated or fibrous-flaky, grey or grey-brown, or grey with whitish patches. Smooth bark shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile leaves opposite each other up to node 5 or 6 then alternating up the stems, 4–8 cm long, 14–45 mm wide, dull, green to blue-green or grey-green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5.5–14 cm long, 8–25 mm wide, dull, green to blue-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 3-7 flowered, mainly forming compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets, but some single flower clusters at the bases of the leaves. Mature flower buds 3–6 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Winter-Summer. Gumnuts 3-5 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~conica (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_conica.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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