Eucalyptus moorei
1 Little Sally at Higgins, ACT
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| Eucalyptus moorei | Tapirlord | 17 Oct 2023 | |
| Eucalyptus bridgesiana | CarbonAI | 16 Oct 2023 | |
| Eucalyptus moorei | pinnaCLE | 16 Oct 2023 |
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Apologies for a long description, but I've been working on this for a while. Part of the reason for my posting is that these shrubs, planted ca 15 years ago, are in the firing line for future widening of Drake Brockman Drive.
This Euc is not common in the region so I'd like to be sure of its ID. Also there are no images in CNM.
I trawled through ID resources and eventually chose the Euclid ID key to convince me.
Euclid offers 934 Eucalypt options for Australia.
I entered the following characters which are mostly shown in my images:
Leaf petiole 0.8 cm
Leaf blade shape falcate
Leaf side veins parallel
7-15 flower buds/umbel
Flower bud shape fusiform to pyriform
Operculum scar absent
Fruit pedicel length 0.1 cm
These characters cut options down to 3:- E lacrimans, E radiata ssp robertsonii and E moorei ssp moorei
A few more answers to Lucid gave me the ID:
Habit mallee or shrub
Fruit shape truncate - globose
Fruit 0.5cm long, 0.5 cm wide
Leaf sheen glossy
This is backed up by bud width 0.25cm, not in key but in species description.
4 comments
17 Oct 2023
With bark like that there is no way it is either E.radiata or E.lacrimans which are quite distinctive trees in the field. The closest thing that might be around in Canberra to this aside from (E.moorei of course) is E.elata but it clearly isn't that with the buds arranged as they are. Nice ID.
In terms of conservation value I would say probably very little, E.moorei is actually native to the ACT (I know of stands on Orroral and Mavis ridges, though have yet to visit myself) but as far as we know it is confined to the mountains. Planted specimens like this one are of the same value as any planted Eucalypt.
In terms of conservation value I would say probably very little, E.moorei is actually native to the ACT (I know of stands on Orroral and Mavis ridges, though have yet to visit myself) but as far as we know it is confined to the mountains. Planted specimens like this one are of the same value as any planted Eucalypt.
17 Oct 2023
Request CNM specify ssp moorei in our index - highly unlikely to have the North Coast ssp serpentenicola grow in this frosty region?
18 Oct 2023
Yes, we can add that. But you might be surprised at what can grow in Canberra, even species that are way out of normal range.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.021845-35.234779
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- 6 Oct 2023 01:00 PM Recorded on
- pinnaCLE Recorded by
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
- Alive / healthy Plant health
- Yes In flower
- Yes Planted
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Species information
- Eucalyptus moorei Scientific name
- Little Sally Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
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In flower
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