Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A mallee up to 3m or tree up to 30m high with a red-brown or grey-brown tessellated bark.
Buds: Pear-shaped 9-11mm long and 5-6mm diameter.
Flowers: Massed cream stamens surrounding a disk, 2cm diameter usually in 7-flowered terminal clusters.
Flowering: February-March.
Fruit: Woody urn-shaped capsule 1-2cm long and 1-1.5cm diameter with depressed disc and deeply enclosed valves, in stalked clusters on a peduncle.
Leaves: Alternate, lanceolate, 10-16cm long and 2-4cm wide with veins at a 65-degree angle to the mid-vein. The upper surface of the leaves is dark green with the underside being paler. There are oil dots on leaves and they have a eucalyptus smell.
Bark: Rough and fibrous on all limbs with red sap or gum ‘bleeding’ from the trunk.
Habitat: Heathland and dry sclerophyll forest, usually on poor soils and is common on dry ridge tops and slopes.
Features: Urn-shaped stalked fruit. Red gum ‘bleeding’ from the trunk. Rough ‘tile-like’ bark.
Name:
Corymbia After Greek mythological dancing priest Corybant
gummifera From Latin = gum-bearing
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Type |
Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
2, 3 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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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 |
Oil dots/Glands, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
Full bark, Rough/Furrowed, Fibrous/Stringy |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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