Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus sparsifolia
Common name
Narrow-leaved stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. North from Mittagong. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Stringybark to about 5 cm diameter branches or throughout, furrowed, grey over reddish brown. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs, 2–5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, rough, glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7–13.5 cm long, 10–22 mm wide, glossy, green. Mature flower buds 4–8 cm long, caps shorter than or as long as the base. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flowers in clusters of 9-15 flowers. Flowering sporadic. Gumnuts 5–8 cm 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~sparsifolia (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_sparsifolia.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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