Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A mallee or tree up to 30m high with dark fibrous bark on trunk and lower branches. The smooth white to grey upper bark sheds in ribbons.
Buds: Club -shaped, 4-7mm long and 3-4mm diameter, stalked and in clusters.
Flowers: Massed cream stamens surrounding a smooth disc, in terminal panicles.
Flowering: September-January.
Fruit: Pear-shaped, 7-9mm diameter, 8-11mm long, in small clusters. The disc is depressed and its 3 valves are enclosed at rim level.
Leaves: Lanceolate 9-15cm long and 1-3cm wide, glossy green on both sides with veins at 10-15 degrees to the mid-vein. The new leaves are bluish (glaucous) and the new stems reddish.
Habitat: In rocky, damp locations in heathland and on well-drained locations in both wet- and dry-sclerophyll forest.
Features: Hard persistent bark on trunk. Red branchlets. Shiny leaves. Pear-shaped fruit usually with 3 valves.
Name:
Eucalyptus From Greek eu = well and kalyptos = covered (referring to the cap covering its bud)
sieberi After the Czech botanist Franz Wilhelm Sieber
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Type |
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, 9, 10, 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 |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic |
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Bark |
Part bark, Rough/Furrowed, Smooth |
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Habitat |
Wet sclerophyll forest, |
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Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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