Eucalyptus botryoides Sm.

Southern Mahogany

Tree to 40 m tall. Bark rough, fibrous, dark brown or greyish, smooth and white on branchlets. Juvenile leaves ovate. Adult leaves broadly lanceolate, 10-16 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, green, glossy, differently shaded on each face; numerous fine veins at a wide angle. Leaf stalk 2-3 cm long. Flowers creamy white, in clusters of 7-11, with stalk 8-15 mm long, flattened; Dec-Feb. Flower stalks usually absent, rarely to 3 mm long. Buds club-shaped to ovoid, lid conical to hemispherical, 3-5 mm long. Fruits cylindrical, 8-12 mm long, 5-9 mm wide, valves (3-)4 to rim level.

Grows naturally in open forest and on sandy flats from Gosford, NSW, to near Metung, Vic.

NSW, Vic.

Large tree with rough dark brown bark at the base; leaves broadly lanceolate, shaded differently on each face, with numerous fine veins at a wide angle to the midrib and often infested with lerps; individual fruits more or less stalkless on a flattened common stalk; fruits sometimes faintly ribbed.

VIC: Beechworth; Fitzroy (Edinburgh Gds); Maldon (Anzac Hill).

Source: Spencer, R.; Rule, K. (2002). Eucalyptus. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Rosanae
order      Myrtales
family       Myrtaceae
genus        Eucalyptus L'Hér.