Eucalyptus sieberi

Black Ash or Silvertop Ash

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

Search Criteria

 

Type

Tree

Flowers

Form

Irregular, Cluster

 

Colour(s)

White, Cream

 

Petal/Sepal No.

-

 

Flowering Month

1, 9, 10, 11, 12

Fruit

Type       

Capsule

 

Colour

Brown

 

Other Features

Woody

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Oval

 

Length    

Medium

 

Margins  

Entire

 

Attachment

Stalked

 

Other Features

Aromatic

Bark

Part bark, Rough/Furrowed, Smooth

Habitat

Wet sclerophyll forest,

 

Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland