Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis |
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red box, silver dollar gum |
red gum, red or river red gum, river red gum |
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Habit | Trees, to 25 m; trunk gray or tan, smooth or rough; bark rough, fibrous, and persistent, or smooth and shed in flakes or irregular strips. | Trees, to 25 m; trunk gray or tan, nearly straight, ± smooth; bark usually shed in irregular strips distally, sometimes persistent toward trunk base; branches often hanging in clusters. |
Leaves | petiole 1–2.5 cm; blade grayish green, silver, or bluish green, round, elliptic, or ovate, 5–10 × 1.5–5 cm, surfaces occasionally glaucous. |
(juvenile alternate, petiolate); petiole 0.3–2 cm; blade green, lanceolate, 6–20 × 1.5–2.5 cm. |
Inflorescences | 5–7-flowered, terminal or axillary, umbels in panicles. |
7-flowered, umbels. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm. |
0.8–1.2 cm. |
Flowers | hypanthium ovoid to obconic, ca. 4 mm, length ca. 2 times calyptra; calyptra conic to hemispheric; stamens white; anthers rigid on filaments, adnate, absent on outer filaments. |
hypanthium hemispheric, 2–3 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra mostly hemispheric, often rostrate, rarely bluntly conic; stamens white. |
Capsules | ovoid or subpyriform, 5–6 mm, to 6 mm wide, glaucous; valves 3 or 4, included. |
hemispheric, 5–9 mm, not glaucous; valves 3–5, exserted. |
2n | = 22. |
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Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed coastal urban areas. | Disturbed habitats, river bottoms. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–1200 m. (0–3900 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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AZ; CA; Australia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America]
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Discussion | Eucalyptus polyanthemos is known from the San Joaquin Valley, Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, Outer South Coast Ranges, South Coast, Santa Catalina Islands, and Western Transverse Ranges. Juvenile, adult, and transitional leaves are occasionally found in crowns of mature naturalized trees. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis is the most widely cultivated eucalypt, with E. globulus and E. grandis being close second and third. Several infraspecific taxa have been recognized for this variable species and more than one of these may be naturalized in North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Myrtaceae > Eucalyptus | Myrtaceae > Eucalyptus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Schauer in W. G. Walpers: Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 924. (1843) | Dehnhardt: Cat. Horti Camald. ed. 2, 20. (1832) — name conserved |
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