Flowers and buds. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, north of Goolgowi, NSW

Nuts and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Multi-trunked tree. Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Trees. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, outskirts of Deniliquin, NSW

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Brooker and Kleinig, Hillston, NSW

Bark. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Brooker and Kleinig, Moonie River, Qld

Common Name

Black Box, River Box

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Tree or multi-stemmed like a mallee, to 20m tall.  Bark rough except for the smallest branches..  Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating up the stems, 6-18cm long, 8-20 mm wide, flat, hairless, glossy or dull, green to grey, somewhat thick.  Flowers white to cream (rarely pink), with 0 petals, 7-11 per cluster, in panicles at the ends of the stems.  Bud caps shorter than the base.  Nut valves not very noticeable. 

Description and photo (page 524) and line drawing of nut (Fig. 56b 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~largiflorens