Flowers, buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flower buds. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Brooker and Kleinig, place not stated

Nuts. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Brooker and Kleinig, place not stated

Mallee. Australian Plant Image Index, photoL Brooker and Kleinig, north of Port Lincoln, SA

Common Name

Bull Mallee, Broad-leaved Box, Broad-leaved Mallee Box

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Tree or mallee to 12m tall. Bark rough on the lower trunk, upper trunk and branches smooth, sometimes coppery.  Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating up the stems, flat, 4.5-13cm long, 13-55mm wide, glossy green. Bud caps shorter than the base. Flowers white, with 0 petals, in clusters of 3-7 in panicles at the ends of the stems, sometimes with a few flowers in clusters of 3-7 at the bases of the leaves. Nut valves not very noticeable. Rare SA.

Description (page 532), photo (page 533) and line drawing of bud and nut (Fig. 57n page 531) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

Description and photographs in the DVD/thumb drive Euclid

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~behriana