Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus pulchella |
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red box, silver dollar gum |
white peppermint, white peppermint 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 21 m; trunk white or bluish gray, mostly smooth, occasionally shaggy or rough near base; bark shed in relatively long strips. |
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); with slight peppermint odor when crushed; petiole 0.1–0.6 cm; blade dark green, linear, 5–10 × 0.1–0.5 cm. |
Inflorescences | 5–7-flowered, terminal or axillary, umbels in panicles. |
9+-flowered, umbels. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm. |
0.1–0.3 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 obconic, 2–3 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra hemispheric, rounded; stamens white. |
Capsules | ovoid or subpyriform, 5–6 mm, to 6 mm wide, glaucous; valves 3 or 4, included. |
ovoid or subpyriform, 4–6 mm, not glaucous; valves 4, ± level with apex or included. |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus pulchella |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering winter. |
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; Australia (Tasmania) |
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.) |
In the flora area, Eucalyptus pulchella is known only from Alameda County. (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) | Desfontaines: Tabl. École Bot. ed. 3, 284, 408. (1829) |
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