Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus muelleriana
Common name
Yellow stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Wet forest, sometimes on escarpments. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 40 m tall. Bark fibrous to stringy on all but the smallest branches or throughout, grey-brown to red-brown or grey-yellow. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, somewhat rough. Juvenile leaves opposite each other and stalkless for about 10 or so pairs, then alternating up the stems, 5.5-16 cm long, 10-50 mm wide, glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours. Stems, leaf stalks, leaf margins and midribs somewhat rough for the lowest 1-10 leaf pairs only. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8-20 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, semi-glossy to glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours or weakly so. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-11+ flowered. Mature flower buds 5–8 mm long, caps shorter than or as long as the base. Flowers summer-autumn. Gumnuts 7-12 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~muelleriana (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_muelleriana.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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