Eucalyptus camphora (Mountain Swamp Gum)
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Flowers of Eucalyptus camphora subsp. humeana in the Alpine National Park in Victoria
Photograph by Murray Fagg. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Flowers of Eucalyptus camphora subsp. camphora in the Australian National Botanic Gardens
Photograph by Murray Fagg. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Credits:
Description, Habitat and Distribution information is sourced from: G.M.Chippendale (2017) Eucalyptus camphora. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Eucalyptus%20camphora Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
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MOUNTAIN SWAMP GUM FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Mountain Swamp Gum
Description
Tree to 22 m. Bark smooth throughout, though often with accumulated decorticating bark at trunk base, grey to brown-grey to almost black. Juvenile leaves ovate, emarginate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves ovate or broadly lanceolate, sometimes emarginate; lamina 6-13 cm long, 3.8-5 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins distinct, at 35° -40° ; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 25-40 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 10-18 mm long; pedicels 2-5 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical or slightly rostrate, 4-5 mm long, 3-5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 2-3 mm long, 3-5 mm wide. Fruits obconical, 4-6 mm long and wide; disc narrow, level or slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, level or slightly exserted.
Habitat
Grows in valleys and marshes of mountain regions in forest.
Distribution
Occurs from near Wallangarra, Qld, to near Glen Innes, N.S.W., then from the Rylstone district to Megalong Valley, and from the southern tablelands of N.S.W. to southern Vic.
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Eucalyptus | | Species: | camphora | | Common Name: | Mountain Swamp Gum |
Relatives in same Genus
Eucalyptus acaciiformis
Eucalyptus accedens
Eucalyptus acies
Eucalyptus albens
Eucalyptus bancroftii
Eucalyptus baxteri
Eucalyptus caleyi
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus cloeziana
Eucalyptus crebra
Eucalyptus crenulata
Eucalyptus curtisii
Eucalyptus dealbata
Eucalyptus dumosa
Eucalyptus eugenioides
Eucalyptus forrestiana
Eucalyptus goniocalyx
Eucalyptus grandis
Eucalyptus intertexta
Eucalyptus largiflorens
Eucalyptus leucoxylon var Rosea
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