Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus dwyeri
Common name
Dwyer's red gum, Dwyer's mallee gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Mallee shrubland, often on rocky hills. Western Slopes. Occasionally tablelands.
Notes
Tree or mallee to 15 m tall. Bark smooth throughout, shedding in plates or flakes, sometimes powdery. Rarely with a few loose basal slabs of rough bark. Juvenile stems round or square in cross section. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 4 to 6 pairs then alternating up the stems, 5–15 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, dull, grey-green to green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7–15 cm long, 10–27 mm wide, glossy or dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 3-7 flowered. Mature flower buds 6–18 mm long, caps usually longer than the base. Flowers spring to summer. Gumnuts 5–9 mm in diameter, sometimes with slight angles. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
Complex intergrading populations occur with Eucalyptus dealbata and Eucalyptus blakelyi.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~dwyeri (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_dwyeri.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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