Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus coolabah |
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red box, silver dollar gum |
coolibah |
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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 10 m; trunk grayto tan, rough; bark fissured. |
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 1.4–2 cm; blade dull bluish gray-green, narrowly lanceolate, 8–17 × 0.8–2.5 cm, surfaces rarely glaucous. |
Inflorescences | 5–7-flowered, terminal or axillary, umbels in panicles. |
7-flowered, terminal, umbels in panicles. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm. |
0.5–2.8 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 obconic, ± 2 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra obconic, apiculate; stamens white. |
Capsules | ovoid or subpyriform, 5–6 mm, to 6 mm wide, glaucous; valves 3 or 4, included. |
hemispheric, 3–5 mm, to 6 mm wide; valves 3 or 4, exserted. |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus coolabah |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed coastal urban areas. | Urban ephemeral waterways. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 300–400 m. (1000–1300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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AZ; n 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 coolabah is an escape along the occasionally flooded Salt River and its tributaries near Phoenix. It is similar to E. microtheca F. Mueller and commonly sold under that name. (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) | Blakely & Jacobs in W. F. Blakely: Key Eucalypts, 245. (1934) |
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