Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus globoidea

Flowers, buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Coppice (juvenile) growth. Photographer Peter Woodard, Kuringai Chase National Park, Sydney

Trunk. Photographer Peter Woodard, Kuringai Chase National Park, Sydney

Tree. Photographer Jackie Miles

Line drawings. d. juvenile (right) and adult (left) leaves; buds and gumnuts. KR Thiele, Australian National Herbarium, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

White stringybark

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, sometimes on alluvial soils. Coast and ranges. Tablelands mainly north of the Kings Highway.

Notes

Tree to 40 m tall.  Bark rough on all but the smallest branches, stringy and furrowed, grey to red-brown.  Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs then alternating up the stems, 4-10 cm long, 20-45 mm wide, rough, glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6-13.5 cm long, 12-40 mm wide, glossy, green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 11-15 flowered.  Mature flower buds 4–7 mm long, caps as long as the base.  Flowers Winter-Summer.  Gumnuts 5-9 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable. 

Two forms of this species were formerly called Eucalyptud oblonga and Eucalyptus yangoura (still described in PlantNET as separate species at 15 October, 2019).

Endangered population (as Eucalyptus oblonga) at Bateau Bay, Forresters Beach and Tumbi Umbi in the Wyong local government area, north of the area covered by this key.

NSW Threatened Species profile (as Eucalyptus oblonga):  https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10943  (accessed 20 April 2021)

Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species or a part of a threatened ecological community.

PlantNET description (Eucalyptus globoidea):   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~globoidea  (accessed 20 April 2021)

PlantNET description (as Eucalyptus oblonga): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~globoidea (accessed 20 April 2021)

PlantNET description (Eucalyptus yangoura):   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~yangoura (accessed 20 April 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_globoidea.htm  (accessed 20 April 2021)