Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A mallee up to 3m high with stringy, fibrous grey to red-brown bark on all limbs.
Buds: Ovoid 6-7mm long and 3-5mm wide, sessile and in tight clusters.
Flowers: Massed cream stamens surrounding a smooth disc, in terminal panicles.
Flowering: Mainly November - January.
Fruit: Hemispherical capsules 6-9mm diameter and 4-6mm long borne in compressed globular clusters. The capsules have a broad disc and protruding valves.
Leaves: Broad lanceolate 7-10cm long and 2-3cm wide, thick, shiny on both sides with veins at 45 degrees to the mid-vein. The young leaves are heart-shaped to orbicular and glossy green.
Habitat: Not a common Eucalypt – only found in heathland.
Features: Mallee habit. Thick, broad, shiny leaves. Fibrous, stringy bark. Some heart-shaped young leaves.
Name:
Eucalyptus From Greek eu = well and kalyptos = covered (referring to the cap covering its bud)
camfieldii After the gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Julius Henry Camfield
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Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
1, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
Woody |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Heart-shaped, Round |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Tapered-tip, Hard, |
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Aromatic |
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Bark |
Fibrous/Stringy |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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