Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus ignorabilis
Common name
None
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland on sandy soils in swampy areas. Coast and ranges south of Eden.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Bark rough on the trunk and branches, fibrous-flaky to shortly fibrous, firm, spongy, with interlocking fissures, grey to brown or red-brown. Smooth bark on the smaller branches shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, slightly warty or smooth. Juvenile leaves opposite each other at first, inconsistently opposite each other or alternating up the stems while the sapling is less than 2 m tall, stalkless or very shortly stalked, 2.8-9 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, dull, green to grey-green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7-20 cm long, 10-30 mm wide, dull, green to grey-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-flowered. Mature flower buds 4–6 mm long, caps shorter than or as long as the base. Flowers Summer-Autumn. Gumnuts 4-7 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~ignorabilis (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_ignorabilis.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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