Flowers, flower buds, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Pine Creek near Paroo-Darling National Park, NSW

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Packsaddle Creek, 180km north of Broken Hill, NSW

Multitrunked tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Packsaddle Creek, 180km north of Broken Hill, NSW

Leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Brooker and Kleinig, unknown place

Common Name

Bimble Box, Poplar Box

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Tree to 20m tall, sometimes multi-trunked. Bark fibrous, rough except for the smallest branches. Crown leaves alternating up the stems, flat, 4-11cm long, 13-70mm wide, glossy green, with pointed, rounded, or sometimes notched tips. Crown often with many intermediate leaves. Flowers white, with 0 petals, in clusters of 4 to more than 15, in panicles at the ends of the stems, some compound clusters at the bases of the leaves. Flower bud caps shorter than the base. Nut valves not very noticeable.  Eucalyptus populnea ssp. bimbil in NSW.

Description and photo (pages 524-525) and line drawings of flower buds and nuts (Fig. 56c page 527) 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~populnea