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SILVER BOX FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Silver Box
Description
The Silver Box is a tree to 10 m, but often a mallee to 3 m or more. Bark rough, flaky throughout, light brown to grey. Juvenile leaves opposite, ovate or broadly lanceolate, glaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, cordate, apiculate; lamina 5-13 cm long, 2.5-9 cm wide, grey-green to pruinose; lateral veins at 50° -60° ; intramarginal vein double, one confluent with margin, the other up to 3 mm from margin; petiole absent. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened to terete, 12-25 mm long; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Buds fusiform to pyriform, pruinose; operculum conical, sometimes slightly rostrate, 4-6 mm long, 3-6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4-7 mm long, 3-6 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical to almost obconical, 7-10 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, glaucous when young; disc narrow, descending; valves 3-5, just exserted.
Habitat
Grows mostly on sandplains but on some ridges and low hills, in gravelly sand and clay in open woodland.
Distribution
Occurs widely in northern Australia from Derby, W.A., through N.T. to Qld, but absent from most of Cape York Peninsula.
Growth Characteristics
Height: 5m - 8m
Spread: 3m - 6m
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Eucalyptus | | Species: | pruinosa | | Common Name: | Silver Box |
Relatives in same Genus
Eucalyptus acaciiformis
Eucalyptus accedens
Eucalyptus acies
Eucalyptus albens
Eucalyptus bancroftii
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
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