Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus viminalis |
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red box, silver dollar gum |
manna gum, ribbon 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 50 m; trunk whitish, gray, or tan, straight, ± smooth; bark usually shed in relatively long, narrow, irregular strips distally, sometimes persistent toward 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 1–1.5 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 10–15 × 1–2.5 cm. |
Inflorescences | 5–7-flowered, terminal or axillary, umbels in panicles. |
usually 3-flowered, umbels. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm. |
to ca. 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 ovoid, 2–3 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra conic to rounded or, rarely, rostrate; stamens white. |
Capsules | ovoid or subpyriform, 5–6 mm, to 6 mm wide, glaucous; valves 3 or 4, included. |
± hemispheric, 5–10 mm, not glaucous; valves 3 or 4, exserted. |
2n | = 22, 90. |
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Eucalyptus polyanthemos |
Eucalyptus viminalis |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring. | Flowering summer, fall. |
Habitat | Disturbed coastal urban areas. | Disturbed urban areas. |
Elevation | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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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 viminalis is known from the Outer North Coast Ranges, Central Coast, Outer South Coast Ranges, South Coast, and Peninsular Ranges. (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) | Labillardière: Nov. Holl. Pl. 2: 12, plate 151. (1806) |
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