WorldFloraDB - Eucalyptus leucoxylon

Characteristics

Tree or mallee. Bark rough, fibrous to 2 m, grey to dark grey, then smooth, white, grey, yellow and/or blue above. Juvenile leaves opposite, broadly lanceolate to ovate or orbicular, cordate, sometimes connate, green or glaucous, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate; lamina green to glaucous; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole terete. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle terete. Buds ovoid, sometimes rostrate, or fusiform; operculum conical to rostrate, usually narrower than hypanthium; hypanthium hemispherical. Fruits hemispherical, subglobular, ovoid or campanulate, sometimes ribbed; valves 4–6, included.

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Tree to 16 m with grey to dark grey rough fibrous bark for 2 m then white, grey, yellow and/or blue smooth bark on remainder.. Juvenile leaves sessile, ovate to broadly lanceolate; adult lanceolate, 9–13 cm long, 1.3–2.5 cm wide; petiole 1–2 cm long.. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle terete, 4–11[14] mm long; pedicels 0.3–2.5 cm long.. Buds ovoid to fusiform, rostrate; operculum 4–5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide.. Calyx-tube 5–7 mm long, 6–7 mm wide.. Fruits pendulous, ovoid to subglobose, 0.7–1.4 cm long, 0.8–1.3 cm wide with dark caducous staminal ring and 4–6 included valves.. Fig. 7/19.

A tree.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

tree

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

15.0

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

1.0

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

Open woodland in areas with cool often frosty winters and hot summers; at elevations from 160-600 metres.

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It is a temperate plant.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

It is the source of an essential oil used to flavour candies, baked goods and ice cream.

Uses	bee plant dye environmental use essential oil fuel invertebrate food material medicinal timber wood
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	Anti-bacterial agents (leaf), Antifungal agents (leaf)
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°)	-8
Optimum temperature (C°)	18 - 30
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-