Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus vicina
Common name
Manara Hills red gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Western Slopes. Mallee shrubland on stony hills.
Notes
Tree or mallee to 15 m tall. Bark usually smooth throughout, shedding, sometimes irregularly, in large plates or flakes, often powdery. Juvenile stems square in cross section, usually glaucous. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 5 or 6 pairs then alternating up the stems, 5–9 cm long, 25–48 mm wide, dull, green to blue-green or slightly glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5.5–16 cm long, 7–27 mm wide, glossy or dull, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flowers in 7 flowered clusters. Mature flower buds 6-10 mm long, caps longer than the base. Flowers winter-spring. Gumnuts 4-8 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have strongly protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~vicina (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_vicina.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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