Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus dendromorpha
Common name
Giant mallee ash, Budawang ash
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest. Ranges and tablelands north of west of Moruya. Coastal between Nowra and Clifton, north of Wollongong.
Notes
Tree to 30 m tall. Bark usually rough on the lower trunk. Rough bark compacted, shortly fibrous, grey to brown. Smooth bark shedding in ribbons, usually with scribbles. Juvenile stems cylindrical, densely warty. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 4 to 7 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 7.5-14 cm long, 20-50 mm wide, glossy, green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7-12 cm long, 10-25 mm wide, glossy, green. Flower clusters 7-11-flowered. Mature flower buds 4–8 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers sporadically. Gumnuts 7-11 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Intergrades with Eucalyptus burgessiana along the coastal escarpment between Wollongong and Jervis Bay.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~dendromorpha (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_dendromorpha.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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