Eucalyptus cyanophylla

Murraylands mallee
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. cyanophylla
Binomial name
Eucalyptus cyanophylla
Bark of Eucalyptus cyanophylla.

Eucalyptus cyanophylla, commonly known as the Murraylands mallee,[1] is a mallee that is native to South Australia.

The multi-stemmed tree of mallee grows to a height of 6 metres (20 ft) and has rough grey-brown and fibrous on the trunk and then smooth grey to orange-brown bark above.[2] Adult leaves are disjunct and dull, grey-green, coriaceous and concolorous with a broad lanceolate shape that is basally tapered. When is bloom it produces a simple, axillary conflorescence with cream-white 7-flowered to 11-flowered umbellasters. Later it will produce fruit that is cylindrical or conical in shape.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dean Nicolle. "Native Eucalypts of South Australia". Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Eucalyptus cyanophylla (Myrtaceae) Murraylands Mallee". Seeds of South Australia. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Eucalyptus cyanophylla Brooker, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 101(1): 15 figs. 1, 2, 3 (1977)". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
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