Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus copulans
Common name
None
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland in swampy areas. Blue Mountains.
Notes
Tree to 10 m high, often multi-trunked. Bark smooth, grey or green, shedding in ribbons. Juvenile leaves opposite each other, narrow, dull, grey-green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6–12 cm long, 10–18 mm wide, green, glossy. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 11-flowered or more. Mature flower buds 6–8 mm long, caps at least as long as the base. Flowers summer-autumn. Gumnuts 4–5 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Considered to be a stable hybrid between Eucalyptus stellulata and Eucalyptus moorei.
Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW 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=10291 (accessed 5 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~copulans (accessed 5 January 2021)
No entry in EUCLID (accessed 5 January 2021)
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