Black Gum at Crace, ACT
Identification history
| Eucalyptus macarthurii | 27 Mar 2026 | Tapirlord | ||
| Eucalyptus aggregata | 24 Apr 2018 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Eucalyptus aggregata | 20 Apr 2018 | walter |
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User's notes
A group of 5-6 large trees on the rhs of Bellenden St (left off the Barton Highway). Possibly planted there in times of the Crace estate?.
3 comments
MLH
wrote:
27 Mar 2026
I believe this is Eucalyptus macarthurii not aggregata. A colleague from CSIRO germinated the seed and the juvenile leaves are not consistent with aggregata, they "had very wide opposite juvenile leaves" like macarthurii.
walter
wrote:
Yesterday
I had another look at the trees I used in the original identification. The young growth (juvenile leaves?) on these trees do not have the opposite arrangement and deltoid shape that distinguish E. macarthurii from other species like E. aggregata. I wonder if this feature is only evident in the seedlings ?
The very rough bark of these trees on Bellenden St certainly is more like the photos I've seen of E. macarthurii
The very rough bark of these trees on Bellenden St certainly is more like the photos I've seen of E. macarthurii
Location information
- Coordinates 149.123422-35.218464
- Altitude 625.0m
- Places Crace, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 19 Apr 2018 03:26 PM Recorded on
- walter Recorded by
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Additional information
- Greater than 5 metres Plant height
Species information
- Eucalyptus aggregata Scientific name
- Black Gum Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Vulnerable *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 781.56m Recorded at altitude
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