Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Eucalyptus pellita F.Muell.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4: 159. Type: Rockingham Bay, Qld, 1864, J. Dallachy s. n.; holo: MEL; iso: K.
Large Fruited Red Mahogany; Red Stringybark; Forest Mahogany; Red Gum; Daintree Stringybark; Hickory; Mahogany, Red; Red Mahogany; Grey Gum
Bark brown, rough, persistent to the small branches, shortly fibrous, often quite thick.
Oil dots visible with a lens if not visible to the naked eye. Leaf blades about 9.5-15 x 2.5-4 cm.
Peduncles flat, strap-like. Individual flowers pedicellate. Operculum conical or broadly conical, about 8 mm diam., usually longer and often wider than the calyx tube (hypanthium). Outer operculum shed early, before the mature bud stage.
Endemic to Australia, occurs in CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range in CYP and NEQ from near sea level to 760 m. Grows in open forest and wet sclerophyll forest, but also found on rain forest margins and as an emergent in rain forest which is advancing into eucalypt forest.
Produces a useful general purpose, reasonably durable, construction timber.
Wood specific gravity 1.00. Cause et al. (1989).