Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus rubida subsp. rubida
Common name
Candlebark, Ribbon gum, White gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and grassy areas, usually on cold flats. Western Slopes, Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, ACT, and tablelands. Occasionally in the ranges.
Notes
Tree to 40 m tall. Bark smooth throughout or with some patches of rough, greyish bark at the base. Rough bark shortly fibrous, platy, at times shedding irregularly, grey to grey-black. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons, with horizontal black scars, often powdery. Branchlets glaucous or non-glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for many pairs, stalkless, 2-6 cm long, 25-65 mm wide, glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6.8-17.5 cm long, 8-34 mm wide, glossy or dull, green, grey-green, or glaucous. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 3- or 7- flowered. Mature flower buds 4–9 mm long, caps as long as or shorter than the base. Flowers Spring-Autumn. Gumnuts 4-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
Hybridises with Eucalyptus aggregata and Eucalyptus nortonii. May hybridise with Eucalyptus parvula.
Eucalyptus rubida subsp. septemflora, still in PlantNET on 20 April 2021 (7-flowered clusters) is now included in Eucalyptus rubida subsp. rubida.
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~rubida (accessed 20 April 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_rubida_subsp._rubida.htm (accessed 20 April 2021)
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