Buds and flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Buds and gum nuts. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Mallee. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Mallee. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Bark. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Pointed Mallee, Red Mallee, Summer Red Mallee, Grey Mallee

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Mallee or tree to 12m tall.  Bark smooth throughout or rough below, smooth above.  New bark orange.  Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating up the stems, 5-14cm long, 8-25 mm wide, flat, hairless, dull, pale or green, rarely glaucous.  Flowers white to cream or yellow, with 0 petals, in clusters of 7-15 at the bases of the leaves.  Bud caps longer than base or about the same length as the base.  Nuts that have dropped their seed have slender fragile valves protruding strongly. Eucalyptus socialis in NSW.

Description and photo (as  Eucalyptus socialis) (pages 529-30) and line drawing of bud and nut (Fig. 57e 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 (as Eucalyptus socialis):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~socialis