Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus multicaulis
Common name
Whipstick ash, Whipstick mallee ash
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Mallee shrubland, often in poorly drained areas. Coast, ranges, and occasionally the tablelands, north of the Kings Highway.
Notes
Mallee to 8 m tall. Bark smooth throughout or with a short stocking of rough bark less than 50 cm high at the base of the branches. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons. Branchlets not glaucous. Juvenile stems cylindrical, sometimes slightly glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs, then alternating up the stems, 5-9.5 cm long, 20-45 mm wide, dull, usually blue-green to grey-green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7-15 cm long, 14-30 mm wide, glossy or dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7–15-flowered. Mature flower buds 3–6 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Spring. Gumnuts 6-8 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~multicaulis (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_multicaulis.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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