Eucalyptus polyanthemos Schauer

Red Box

Tree growing to 25 m tall. Bark generally fibrous on trunk and lower branches or virtually smooth and grey or cream throughout. Juvenile leaves almost round, notched at the tip, grey-green. Adult leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate; blade 5.5-9 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, greyish, dull, tip with a small point. Leaf stalk cylindrical or flattened,1.5-2.5 cm long. Flowers white, cream or pink, in multiple clusters of 7, individual stalks 2-5 mm long; Sept-Nov. Fruits 4-7 mm long, 3-6 mm wide.

Grows naturally in rocky woodland and slopes of C Vic, the Great Divide and C and S Tablelands of NSW.

Vic, NSW.

Blue-grey roundish leaves with a small point at the tip; massed clusters of small flowers.

ACT: Turner (David St).VIC: Balwyn (Maranoa Gds); Colac (Bot. Gds).

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.

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