Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus stenostoma
Common name
Jillaga ash
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland on steep slopes and rocky hill tops. Deua and Wadbilliga National Parks and nearby.
Notes
Tree to 25 m tall. Bark rough on the lower trunk, shortly fibrous, compacted, with shallow fissures, grey or grey-black. Smooth bark shedding in ribbons, usually with scribbles. Branchlets glaucous. Juvenile stems cylindrical, glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for about 3 pairs, then alternating up the stems, to 18 cm long, 60 mm wide, dull, green to grey-green or glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 9-19.5 cm long, 10-30 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 11-20+ flowered. Mature flower buds 4–6 mm long, caps shorter than the base. The outer ring of stamens does not produce pollen. Flowers Spring-Summer. Gumnuts 6-12 mm in 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~stenostoma (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_stenostoma.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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