Kingdom Plantae Family Myrtaceae Rank Species | Order Myrtales Genus Eucalyptus | |
Similar Eucalyptus cretata, Eucalyptus copulans, Eucalyptus angophoroides, Eucalyptus dura, Eucalyptus bigalerita | ||
Eucalyptus confluens, also known as Kimberley gum, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.
The tree typically grows to a height of 3 to 10 metres (10 to 33 ft) and has white-pink smooth bark throughout. The adult leaves are disjunct, glossy, green, thick and concolorous. The blade has a narrow lanceolate or lanceolate shape that is basally tapered.
It blooms between February and March producing simple axillary conflorescence with three to seven white flowered umbellasters with terete peduncles. Buds have an ovoid or clavate shape with a calyptrate calyx and often shed early.
E. confluens is similar in appearance two other white gums within its area of occurrence, E. brevifolia and E. gregoriensis.
It is found the in Kimberley region of Western Australia and is often situated on rocky hillsides or ridges growing in sandy stony soils over sandstone, granite or quartzite.