Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus squamosa
Common name
Scaly bark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland. North of Mittagong. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 15 m tall. Bark rough throughout, tessellated or fibrous-flaky, grey to red-brown. Juvenile stems cylindrical. New growing tips often glaucous but wax not persisting on stems or leaves. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 3 to 7 pairs then alternating up the stems, 4.5–10 cm long, 20–60 mm wide, dull, green to grey-green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 6–13 cm long, 9–20 mm wide, glossy or dull, green to grey-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters frequently paired, 7-13 flowered. Mature flower buds 6-11 mm long, caps at least as long as the base. Flowers spring-autumn. Gumnuts 6-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have strongly protruding valves.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~squamosa (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_squamosa.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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