Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus grandis |
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red box, silver dollar gum |
flooded gum, grand eucalyptus, rose 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 55 m; trunk white, grayish white, or bluish gray, smooth; bark sparse, rough and flaky at trunk base. |
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 1–2.2 cm; blade grayish green or yellow-green, lighter abaxially, lanceolate to elliptic, often falcate, 9.5–16 × 2–5 cm. |
Inflorescences | 5–7-flowered, terminal or axillary, umbels in panicles. |
7–11-flowered, umbels. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm. |
1–1.5 cm, 3–4 mm wide apically. |
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 or campanulate, 3–4 mm, length only slightly greater than calyptra; calyptra conic or slightly rostrate, 3–4 mm; stamens white. |
Capsules | ovoid or subpyriform, 5–6 mm, to 6 mm wide, glaucous; valves 3 or 4, included. |
subpyriform, 5–8 mm, not glaucous; valves 4 or 5, exserted, incurved. |
2n | = 22. |
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Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus grandis |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering fall. |
Habitat | Disturbed coastal urban areas. | Disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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CA; FL; e 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 grandis is known from Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura counties in California, and from Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach, and Pinellas counties in Florida. (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) | W. Mill ex Maiden: J. Proc. Roy. Soc. New S. Wales 52: 501. (1919) |
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