Flower buds, flowers, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Waite Arboretum, Adelaide, SA

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

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Brooker and Kleinig, Kangaroo Island, SA

Bark. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Brooker and Kleinig, Alligator River, SA

Common Name

Sugar Gum, White Gum

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Tree to 35m tall.  Bark smooth, sometimes orange.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 8-17cm long, 12-35mm wide, flat, glossy green, hairless, with pointed tips.  Flowers white, with 0 petals, in clusters of 4-16 at the bases of the leaves. Bud caps much shorter than the base.  Buds often with longitudinal lines, nuts smooth to ribbed.  Nut valves not very noticeable.

Description and line drawings in JP Jessop and HR Toelken (eds)  Flora of South Australia 4th edition (1986), State Herbarium of South Australia, volume 2, page 913.  There is no fact sheet in eFlora of South Australia.

Description and photos in the CD/thumb drive Euclid.