Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus tenella

Flower buds on stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Gumnuts on stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Stringybark, Narrow-leaved stringybark

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Woodland. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands north from the Budawang Range. Coastal west of Nowra.

Notes

Tree to 15 m tall.  Bark rough on all but the smallest branches or throughout, stringy and furrowed, grey to grey-brown.  Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 7 to 10 pairs and then alternating up the stems, 2.5-7 cm long, 3-15 mm wide, almost stalkless, glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours, leaf margins and midrib rough.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5-15 cm long, 5-20 mm wide, glossy or dull, green.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 7-15 flowered.  Mature flower buds 3–6 mm long, caps shorter than or about as long as the base.  Flowers Spring-Autumn.  Gumnuts 5-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.

Two descriptions in PlantNET - Eucalyptus tenella (Rylstone to Nowra), and Eucalyptus ralla (upper Nattai River to Yalwal Plateau)

PlantNET description (Eucalyptus tenella):   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~tenella  (accessed 20 April 2021)

PlantNET description (Eucalyptus ralla):   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~ralla  (accessed 20 April 2021) 

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_tenella.htm  (accessed 20 April 2021)