Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus robusta |
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red box, silver dollar gum |
swamp mahogany |
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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 30 m; trunk reddish brown, rough; bark persistent, deeply furrowed, soft, spongy, fibrous, rough on small branches. |
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 1.5–3 cm, slightly flattened; blade lighter green abaxially, broadly lanceolate, 8.5–17 × 2.5–7 cm, surfaces glossy. |
Inflorescences | 5–7-flowered, terminal or axillary, umbels in panicles. |
9–15-flowered, umbels. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm. |
broadly flattened, 1.5–3 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 to pyriform, 6–7 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra conic to rostrate, 10–12 mm; stamens white. |
Capsules | ovoid or subpyriform, 5–6 mm, to 6 mm wide, glaucous; valves 3 or 4, included. |
cylindric, 10–18 mm, not glaucous; valves 3 or 4, fused after dehiscence, ± level with apex or included and joined across orifice. |
Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus robusta |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering summer–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 robusta is known from Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Ventura counties in California, and from Charlotte, Lee, Martin, and St. Lucie 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) | Smith: Spec. Bot. New Holland, 39, plate 13. (1795) |
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