Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus melliodora
Common name
Yellow box, Honey box, Yellow ironbox
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland and grassy areas. Often on often sandy or alluvial soils. Mainly Western Slopes, Snowy Muntains, ACT, tablelands, and ranges. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Tree to 30 m tall. Bark rough on the lower trunk to up to the whole of the trunk and larger branches, fibrous-flaky ('box'), often in thin flakes, grey or pale brown to yellow-grey or yellow. Smooth bark shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for several pairs then alternating up the stems, 2.5-11 cm long, 9-50 mm wide, green to grey-green, dull, occasionally glaucous. Crowns grey or green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6-15 cm long, 6-30 mm wide, dull, green to grey-green or grey. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7 flowered, often forming compound clusters. Mature flower buds 4–8 mm long, caps shorter than or slightly shorter than the base. Outer row of stamens not producing pollen. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 3-7 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Hybridises with Eucalyptus mannifera subsp. mannifera.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~melliodora (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_melliodora.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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