Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus lacrimans
Common name
Weeping snow gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Grassy subalpine woodland. Kosciuszko National Park. Tablelands south and east of the ACT.
Notes
Tree to 15 m high. Bark smooth, powdery, shedding in ribbons. Branchlets glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, usually glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 5 or 6 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 6.5–11 cm long, 22–40 mm wide, dull, grey-, blue-green, or green, to glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7–18 cm long, 7–30 wm wide, glossy, green or grey-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7- to about 15-flowered. Mature flower buds 5–8 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Gumnuts 5–11 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~lacrimans (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_lacrimans.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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