Eucalyptus bancroftii (Orange Gum)
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Eucalyptus bancroftii foliage and flowers in the Australian National Botanic Garden
Photograph by Murray Fagg. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Eucalyptus bancroftii at Moonbi New South Wales
Photograph by Ian Brooker and David Kleinig. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Credits:
Description, Habitat and Distribution information is sourced from: G.M.Chippendale (2017) Eucalyptus bancroftii. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Eucalyptus%20bancroftii Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
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ORANGE GUM FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Orange Gum
Other Names
Bancroft’s Red Gum
Description
Tree to 30 m. Bark smooth throughout, pink or orange to grey-brown. Juvenile leaves ovate, green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acute, thick; lamina 7.5-20 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, green; lateral veins at 30° -60° ; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete or channelled, 12-25 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle angular, 5-20 mm long; pedicels 2-5 mm long. Buds cylindrical; operculum cylindrical, 7-12 mm long, 4-5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 3-4 mm long, 4-6 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to subglobular, often angular or ribbed, 5-9 mm long and wide; disc broad, convex; valves 3 or 4. Seeds red-brown.
Habitat
Grows in flat and gently sloping country, sometimes in drainage channels, and on rock outcrops on tablelands, often as scattered trees in open forest, sometimes dominant in small areas.
Distribution
Occurs from near Noonooroo, southeastern Qld, S to Maitland, N.S.W., predominantly in coastal areas but extending to adjacent tablelands.
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Eucalyptus | | Species: | bancroftii | | Common Name: | Orange Gum |
Relatives in same Genus
Eucalyptus acaciiformis
Eucalyptus accedens
Eucalyptus acies
Eucalyptus albens
Eucalyptus baxteri
Eucalyptus caleyi
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camphora
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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