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Eucalyptus nova anglica

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Genus
  
Gum trees

Order
  
Myrtales

Family
  
Myrtaceae

Rank
  
Species

Eucalyptus nova-anglica httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Similar
  
Gum trees, Eucalyptus caliginosa, Eucalyptus michaeliana, Eucalyptus olsenii, Eucalyptus imlayensis

Eucalyptus nova-anglica, New England Peppermint, is a small to medium-sized tree to 25 metres. The bark is persistent on the trunk and larger branches, fibrous, thick, grey to grey-brown, shedding in short ribbons. Small branches are green.

Juvenile leaves are opposite, orbiculate, straight, entire, glaucous, sessile, 8 cm long, 6 mm wide. Adult leaves are disjunct, narrow lanceolate or lanceolate, falcate, acute, basally tapered, dull to semi-glossy, green or grey-green, thick, concolorous and 7–15 cm long, 0.7–1.3 mm wide.

Flowers are white or cream.

Grows on reasonably good soils on flats, prefers clayey loams. Distribution is on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales and on the adjacent areas of Queensland.

References

Eucalyptus nova-anglica Wikipedia