Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus elata
Common name
River peppermint, River white gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland, usually on along streams and in gullies. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 40 m tall, rarely a mallee. In trees bark rough on the lower trunk or sometimes on the full trunk. In mallees bark smooth throughout. Rough bark compacted, shortly fibrous, grey to black. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, smooth or warty. Juvenile leaves opposite each other and stalkless for many pairs, bases often stem-clasping, 3.3-10.5 cm long, 6-16 mm wide, dull to glossy, green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6-22 cm long, 6-20 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 11-30+-flowered. Mature flower buds 2–5 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Winter-Summer. Gumnuts 3-6 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~elata (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_elata.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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