Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus denticulata
Common name
Shining gum, Errinundra Shining Gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Wet forest. Tablelands along the Victorian border.
Notes
Tree to 90 m tall. Bark smooth except for some loose rough bark at the base of trunk. Rough bark fibrous flaky, grey, black or brown. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons, usually with horizontal black scars. New growing tips red-brown, not glaucous. Juvenile stems square in cross section and prominently winged, not or only slightly glaucous. Juvenile leaves stalkless and opposite each other for many pairs, 5–12.5 cm long, 17–45 mm wide, dull, blue-green or green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 13–30 cm long, 14–30 mm wide, glossy, green, margins finely toothed. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7 flowered. Mature flower buds 5–8 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Gumnuts 4–7 mm in diameter, sometimes faintly angled longitudinally. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
Intergrades with Eucalyptus nitens where the two species grow close together.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~denticulata (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_denticulata.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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