Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus dives
Common name
Broad-leaved peppermint, Blue peppermint
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland on poor shallow stony soils. Widespread but rarely coastal.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Bark rough on the trunk and large branches. Rough bark finely fibrous (`peppermint'), grey to grey-brown. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, often glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for many pairs, 6-15 cm long, 20-70 mm wide, stalkless, stem-clasping, rarely with the bases of the leaves joined around the stem, dull to slightly glossy, blue-green to blue-grey or green or glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7–15 cm long, 14-42 mm wide, slightly glossy or dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7- to many-flowered. Mature flower buds 3–6 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 4-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Hybridises with Eucalyptus macrorhyncha subsp. macrorhyncha, Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora, and Eucalyptus rossii.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~dives (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_dives.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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