Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus ovata var. ovata
Common name
Swamp gum, Black gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland in permanently damp sites. Mainly tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 30 m tall. Bark smooth throughout or rough to a variable height on the trunk. Rough bark loose, shortly fibrous, compacted, grey to grey-brown or grey-black. Smooth bark shedding in long broad ribbons, occasionally powdery. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for about 5-10 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 3-8.5 cm long, 25-60 mm wide, dull, green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6-18 cm long, 15-50 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-flowered. Mature flower buds 5–11 mm long, caps as long as the base. Flowers Autumn-Spring. Gumnuts 4-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
Eucalyptus ovata in PlantNET.
PlantNET description (as Eucalyptus ovata): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~ovata (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_ovata_subsp._ovata.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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