Eucalyptus viminalis |
Eucalyptus coolabah |
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manna gum, ribbon gum |
coolibah |
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Habit | 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. | Trees, to 10 m; trunk grayto tan, rough; bark fissured. |
Leaves | petiole 1–1.5 cm; blade green, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 10–15 × 1–2.5 cm. |
petiole 1.4–2 cm; blade dull bluish gray-green, narrowly lanceolate, 8–17 × 0.8–2.5 cm, surfaces rarely glaucous. |
Inflorescences | usually 3-flowered, umbels. |
7-flowered, terminal, umbels in panicles. |
Peduncles | to ca. 1 cm. |
0.5–2.8 cm. |
Flowers | hypanthium ovoid, 2–3 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra conic to rounded or, rarely, rostrate; stamens white. |
hypanthium obconic, ± 2 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra obconic, apiculate; stamens white. |
Capsules | ± hemispheric, 5–10 mm, not glaucous; valves 3 or 4, exserted. |
hemispheric, 3–5 mm, to 6 mm wide; valves 3 or 4, exserted. |
2n | = 22, 90. |
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Eucalyptus viminalis |
Eucalyptus coolabah |
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Phenology | Flowering summer, fall. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed urban areas. | Urban ephemeral waterways. |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | 300–400 m. (1000–1300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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AZ; n Australia [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | 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.) |
Eucalyptus coolabah is an escape along the occasionally flooded Salt River and its tributaries near Phoenix. It is similar to E. microtheca F. Mueller and commonly sold under that name. (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 | Labillardière: Nov. Holl. Pl. 2: 12, plate 151. (1806) | Blakely & Jacobs in W. F. Blakely: Key Eucalypts, 245. (1934) |
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