Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus ligustrina

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

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

Trees. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers brooker & Kleinig, Blue Mountains

Common name

Privet-leaved stringybark

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Woodland and heath. Coast, ranges, and Southern Highlands, north from west of Moruya. Occasionally in the Sydney area.

Notes

Shrub, mallee, or tree, to 20 m tall.  Bark rough on the trunk and larger branches, or rough as high as the branches more than about 2-3 cm diameter.  Rough bark stringy, grey to grey-brown.  Smooth bark shedding in short ribbons.  Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs, then alternating up the stems, almost stalkless or with short stalks, 1-3.8 cm long, 7-22 mm wide, glossy, green, rough.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 3-10 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, glossy, green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 9-11+ flowered.  Mature flower buds 3–5 mm long, caps shorter than or as long as the base.  Flowers Autumn-Spring.  Gumnuts 4-10 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~ligustrina  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_ligustrina.htm  (accessed 22 January, 2021)