Eucalyptus muelleriana
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Eucalyptus muelleriana, commonly known as yellow stringybark,[1] is a species of medium-sized to tall tree that is endemic to southeastern Australia. It has rough, stingy bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped to shortened spherical fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus muelleriana is a tree that typically grows to a height of Template:Cvt and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, stringy, greyish bark from the base of the trunk to the thinnest branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have lance-shaped leaves that are glossy dark green on the upper surface, paler below, Template:Cvt long, Template:Cvt wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, glossy green but slightly paler on the lower surface, Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide on a petiole Template:Cvt long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle Template:Cvt long, the individual buds on pedicels Template:Cvt long. Mature buds are oval, Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between January and May and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cup-shortened to shortened spherical capsule Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide with the valves level with the rim or slightly protruding.[1][2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus muelleriana was first formally described in 1891 by Alfred William Howitt in Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria.[5][6] The specific epithet honours Ferdinand von Mueller.[1]
Distribution and habitat
Yellow stringbark grows in wet forests on coastal plains, ranges and escarpments from Wollongong in New South Wales to Wilsons Promontory in Victoria.[2][3][4] It has also been planted in New Zealand. [7][8]
Uses
Yellow stringbark provides a valuable timber which is strong, durable, straight-grained and has been widely used, particularly in Victoria for posts and piles. [7][8]
See also
References
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