Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus croajingolensis
Common name
East Gippsland peppermint, Gippsland peppermint
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest and moist areas. Mainly south of Bega. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 30 m tall. Bark rough throughout or the branches less than 8 cm diameter smooth. Rough bark finely fibrous and finely fissured (peppermint-type), grey to grey-brown. Smooth bark often with scribbles, shedding in long ribbons. Branchlets glaucous or non-glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, warty. Juvenile leaves opposite each other, stalkless, 4-9 cm long, 12-32 mm wide, dull, grey-green or green to glaucous. New growth tips conspicuously pink-brown, non-glaucous. Adult leaves opposite each other or alternating up the stems, 8-18 cm long, 12-42 mm wide, dull, blue-grey, grey-green or green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 9-19+ flowered. Mature flower buds 3–5 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Summer. Gumnuts 4-6 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~croajingolensis (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_croajingolensis.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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