Eucalyptus dives
Broad-leaved Peppermint at Mount Majura
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| Eucalyptus dives | abread111 | 18 Mar 2024 | |
| Eucalyptus dives | CarbonAI | 18 Mar 2024 |
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Single remnant vegetation tree on edge of treed area in grassy woodland, immature buds up to 18 per umbel counted, mature nuts up to 12 counted, adult leaves alternate, but opposite on some young tips in the canopy (see 4th photo), upper and lower surfaces the same colour, no juvenile foliage seen.
Euclid key got to E. dives - second guess would be E. radiata subsp radiata
5 comments
18 Mar 2024
Yes the lanceolate to linear opposite sessile juvenile leaves point to a E.radiata subspecies. But location is wrong for narrow-leaved peppermint. Maybe the sessile opposite leaves are not juvenile leaves in this sighting.
18 Mar 2024
I agree the opposite young leaves are not juvenile foliage- they were just new growth in the canopy.
18 Mar 2024
I just looked In ALA and I reckon this is the same tree as Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region - 20201112-24368 record which has lat and long very very similar, from 2009-7-9/2011-8-10. Also looked at the distribution for my second guess and can see that makes the second guess unlikely.
19 Mar 2024
Hm, I haven't considered E. radiata; the location would be wrong. If the tree was planted it must have been long time ago i.e >> 50 years . Quite unlikely? I took photos of E. dives - so I thought - in Mulligans Flat / Goorroyarroo many years ago; unfortunately my old camera didn't have GPS so I can't download photos.
Perhaps a photo of the whole tree / low branching would be good?
Perhaps a photo of the whole tree / low branching would be good?
Location information
- Coordinates 149.169712-35.228586
- Altitude 643.0m
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Mar 2024 11:35 AM Recorded on
- abread111 Recorded by
- Greater than 5 metres Plant height
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Species information
- Eucalyptus dives Scientific name
- Broad-leaved Peppermint Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1328.75m Recorded at altitude
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Was the plant in flower?
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