Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus fraxinoides
Common name
White ash, White mountain ash
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest. Coastal south of Eden. Ranges and the higher parts of the tablelands south of the Hume Highway. Mt Dromedary. One record from the ACT.
Notes
Tree to 40 m tall. Bark on the basal 4–5 m of trunk rough, shortly fibrous, compacted, grey, grey-brown, or black. Smooth bark above, with scribbles, shedding in long ribbons, occasionally with black horizontal scars. Branchlets sometimes glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section, occasionally glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other and stem-clasping for 5 or 6 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 6-15 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, dull, green, grey-green, or blue-green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8-18 cm long, 10-35 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-11-flowered. Mature flower buds 4–7 mm long, caps shorter than or as long as the base. Flowers Summer. Gumnuts 6-11 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~fraxinoides (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_fraxinoides.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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