Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus viridis
Common name
Green Mallee
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Mallee shrubland on rocky rises. Western Slopes.
Notes
Mallee or tree to 10 m tall. Bark rough on the lower part of the stems, smooth above, or smooth throughtout. Rough bark fibrous-flaky, more or less scaly, (`box'), grey to dark grey, grey-brown or blackish. Smooth bark shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for a few pairs then alternating up the stems, 4.5–11 cm long, 2–11 mm wide, dull, grey-green or blue-green to green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5–13 cm long, 3–15 mm wide, slightly glossy to glossy, green. Flowers creamy white to white, with 0 petals. Mature flower buds 4–8 mm long, caps shorter than or as long as the base. Flowers in 4–10 flowered clusters, forming compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets, or also some single clusters at the bases of the leaves. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 2–7 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~viridis (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_viridis.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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