Eucalyptus racemosa

Scribbly Gum at Conder, ACT

Eucalyptus racemosa at Conder, ACT - 13 Jan 2022
Eucalyptus racemosa at Conder, ACT - 13 Jan 2022
Eucalyptus racemosa at Conder, ACT - 13 Jan 2022
Eucalyptus racemosa at Conder, ACT - 13 Jan 2022
Eucalyptus racemosa at Conder, ACT - 13 Jan 2022
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Eucalyptus racemosa 16 May 2022 MichaelBedingfield
Eucalyptus racemosa 16 May 2022 MichaelBedingfield
Unidentified 5 May 2022 MichaelBedingfield

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Conder, ACT

8 comments

Tapirlord wrote:
   5 May 2022
Perhaps it is Eucalyptus gregsoniana, (dwarf snow gum). The nuts and buds look similar as do the leaves, and it has been planted as a street tree in conder. Only thing, is that E.gregsoniana is supposed to be a mallee, though it can reach heights of 5/6 metres, general shot would be great :)
   6 May 2022
Thanks Ciaran. I don't think it is a mallee, since it is taller with a single large trunk. I planted the tree myself, bought from a nursery, but a long time ago. Will endeavour to get another pic.
RogerF wrote:
   6 May 2022
gregsoniana does not always resemble a mallee with mutiple trunks, see examples at Oallen
   13 May 2022
   14 May 2022
I think it is Eucalyptus racemosa, on the basis of the oblique nature of the base of the leaves (i.e the leaf base is significantly non-symmetrical).
RogerF wrote:
   14 May 2022
According to Brooket & Kleinig, racemosa (which I had not heard of) = sclerophylla, the coastal scribbly gum. In Costermans the two species are separate. So the trunk should have scribbles. Very close to our own rossii and to haemastoma, all difficult to tell apart. Obliqueness of leaf not mentioned although rossii not oblique..
   14 May 2022
I worked my way through CSIRO lucid Eucalyptus keyhttps://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/identify/key.html
where on bud, fruit and stem characters I got down to ten species including racemosa and gregsoniana and the base of the leaf was the defining character.
   16 May 2022
Thanks everyone. There are scribbles on the trunk.

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