Corymbia maculata (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson

Species

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Myrtaceae > Corymbia

Characteristics

Tree to 45 m. Bark cream, pink-grey or blue-grey, usually mottled in several colours, often dimpled. Juvenile leaves ovate, some peltate, setose becoming glabrous. Adult leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate; lamina 12–21 cm long, 1.2–3 cm wide; lateral veins just visible, at 35°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole angular, 15–25 mm long. Peduncle terete, 3–8 mm long; pedicels angular, 3–7 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum hemispherical, apiculate, 4–5 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 5–8 mm long and wide. Fruits ovoid or sometimes suburceolate, 10–14 mm long, 9–11 mm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 32.5 - 40.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 1.0
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Open forests, on hilly country, in almost pure stands on the lower slopes of valleys and on ridges where the soil is fairly fertile and not too dry and on upper slopes of northerly facing aspect.
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Open forests, on hilly country, in almost pure stands on the lower slopes of valleys and on ridges where the soil is fairly fertile and not too dry and on upper slopes of northerly facing aspect.
Grows usually on valley slopes and ridges ofcoastal ranges, and on undulating areas nearer the coastline, in open forest insandy soils, sometimes in pure stands.
Light 7-8
Soil humidity 5-8
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 5-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses animal food bee plant dye environmental use essential oil fiber fuel gum invertebrate food material medicinal timber wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Liver diseases (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) 1
Optimum temperature (C°) 23 - 32
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Corymbia maculata unspecified picture

Distribution

Corymbia maculata world distribution map, present in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Province of China, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, and South Africa

Conservation status

Corymbia maculata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:986338-1
WFO ID wfo-0000925549
COL ID 6B77M
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 445831
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Synonyms

Corymbia maculata Eucalyptus maculata