WorldFloraDB - Eucalyptus approximans

Characteristics

Mallee to 4 m. Bark smooth throughout, white or grey. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, shining, green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate or uncinate, slightly oblique, thick; lamina shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 15°–20°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 4–10 mm long. Umbels 3-or 7-flowered; peduncle flattened or angular, 3–7 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, warty; hypanthium obconical. Fruits cylindrical or campanulate; disc broad, level or descending; valves 3 or 4, included. Seeds brown.

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Lamina 8–10 mm long, 0.6–0.9 cm wide. Umbels 7-flowered; pedicels 1–4 mm long. Operculum 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium 3–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical, 6–8 mm long, 6–7 mm wide.

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Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter)	2.5 - 4.0
Mature height (meter)	4.5 - 7.0
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

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Usually growing among granite outcrops insmall pure stands.

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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

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