Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus luehmanniana

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

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

Flower buds on stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, unknown place

Open gumnuts on stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, unknown place

Mallees. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, south Sydney

Common name

Yellow top mallee ash

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Mallee heath on shallow poorly drained soils on sandstone. Coast and ranges north of Kiama.

Notes

Mallee to 7 m tall.  Bark smooth throughout, shedding in strips or long ribbons.  Branchlets always prominently square in cross section, usually yellow but sometimes glaucous.  Juvenile stems usually square in cross section.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other and stalkless or almost stalkless for 3-4 pairs, then stalked and alternating up the stems, 7–17.5 cm long, 30-75 mm wide, glossy, green.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 10-20 cm long, 20-45 mm wide, glossy, green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 11- to about 15 flowered.  Mature flower buds 6–15 mm long, caps as long as the base.  Flowers Winter-Summer.  Gumnuts 7-12 mm in diameter, slightly ribbed. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable. 

Hybridises with Eucalyptus burgessiana on the coast north from Jervis Bay.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~luehmanniana  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

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