Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus pulverulenta
Common name
Silver-leafed Gum, Silver-leaved Mountain Gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Open forest and grassy woodland as an understorey plant. Tablelands and Blue Mountains.
Notes
Tree or mallee to 10 m tall. Bark smooth throughout or with some short thin persistent rough ribbons at the base of old trunks, Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons. Branchlets glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other, 1.5–5 cm long, 20–50 mm wide, glaucous. Crown usually entirely of juvenile leaves. Adult leaves very rarely produced, alternating up the stems or opposite each other, 5–10 cm long, 12–20 mm wide, dull, usually glaucous. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Mature flower buds 7–11 mm long, conspicuously glaucous. Bud caps shorter than the base. Flower clusters 3 flowered, at the base of usually paired leaves. Flowers autumn-spring. Nuts 6–11 mm in diameter. Nuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10308 (accessed 22 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~pulverulenta (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_pulverulenta.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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