Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus mannifera |
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red box, silver dollar gum |
mottled or red spotted or brittle 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 20 m; trunk white and grayish white, mottled, smooth, powdery to touch; bark shedding. |
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 0.5–2.2 cm; blade green to bluish green or, occasionally, grayish green, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate or falcate, 7–18.5 × 1–3 cm, surfaces dull. |
Inflorescences | 5–7-flowered, terminal or axillary, umbels in panicles. |
ca. 7-flowered; umbels. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm. |
0.5–-1 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, 2–4 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra conic to rounded, 2–4 mm; stamens white. |
Capsules | ovoid or subpyriform, 5–6 mm, to 6 mm wide, glaucous; valves 3 or 4, included. |
hemispheric to obconic, 3–5 mm, not glaucous; valves 3, exserted. |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus mannifera |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed coastal urban areas. | Disturbed coastal and urban 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; se 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 mannifera is known from the Central Coast, San Francisco Bay area, and Outer South Coast Ranges. (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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Synonyms | E. maculosa | |
Name authority | Schauer in W. G. Walpers: Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 924. (1843) | Mudie: Trans. Med.-Bot. Soc. London 1(3): 24. (1834) |
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