Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus fastigata
Common name
Brown barrel, Cut-tail
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Tall forests and gullies in cold wet areas. Widespread. No records from the Western Slopes or the Sydney area. A few sightings, but no recent records, from Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Tree to 60 m tall, often buttressed at the base. Bark rough on the trunk and larger branches, fibrous or stringy, often furrowed, grey to brown or red-brown. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, usually smooth. Juvenile leaves at first opposite each other, then alternating up the stems, 4.5- about 15 cm long, 18-90 mm wide, glossy green, margins rough or with minute teeth. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7-20.5 cm long, 11-45 mm wide, usually glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters often in pairs, each 7-15+ flowered. Mature flower buds 3–7 mm long, caps shorter than or as long as the base. Flowers Summer. Gumnuts 4-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
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~fastigata (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_fastigata.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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