Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus conferruminata |
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red box, silver dollar gum |
bushy yate, spider 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 or shrubs, to 5 m; trunk light gray or tan, smooth; bark shed in strips and short ribbons. |
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. |
petiole 0–1.2 cm; blade light green, elliptic to elongate-elliptic, 5–9 × 1–4 cm, surfaces glossy. |
Inflorescences | 5–7-flowered, terminal or axillary, umbels in panicles. |
7–19-flowered, umbels compact, globose. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm. |
distinctly flattened, 3–7 × 1–3 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 sessile, fused to adjacent hypanthia; calyptra horn- or finger-shaped; stamens yellowish green. |
Capsules | ovoid or subpyriform, 5–6 mm, to 6 mm wide, glaucous; valves 3 or 4, included. |
connate; forming compact, globose cluster, 30–60 mm diam., not glaucous; valves 3, strongly exserted, with persistent style remnants. |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus conferruminata |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed coastal urban areas. | Disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 60–100 m. (200–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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CA; sw Australia [Introduced in North America] |
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 conferruminata, commonly cultivated as a screen plant in southwestern coastal California, is often sold under the name E. lehmannii (Schauer) Bentham. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 10. | FNA vol. 10. |
Parent taxa | Myrtaceae > Eucalyptus | Myrtaceae > Eucalyptus |
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Name authority | Schauer in W. G. Walpers: Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 924. (1843) | D. J. Carr & S. G. M. Carr: Austral. J. Bot. 28: 535, figs. 2, 11, 17, 20, 27B, 28A, 30. (1980) |
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