Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus eugenioides
Common name
Thin-leaved stringybark, White stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 30 m tall. Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, stringy, usually longitudinally fissured, grey to grey-brown or red-brown. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 5 to 10 pairs then alternating up the stems, 4.5-10 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, glossy green, paler below. Growing tips, leaf margins, and midribs rough for many nodes. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6.2-16 cm long, 9-35 mm wide, glossy to dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 9-15 flowered. Mature flower buds 4–8 mm long, caps as long as the base. Flowers Winter-Summer. Gumnuts 5-10 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~eugenioides (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_eugenioides.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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