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PLANT FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Wattle-leaved Peppermint
Description
Tree to 20 m. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, grey-brown. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 5-10 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, green; lateral veins just visible, at 30° -40° ; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole slightly flattened or terete, 6-18 mm long. Peduncle terete, 2-5 mm long; pedicels 1-3 mm long. Buds ovoid to obovoid or ±fusiform; operculum conical or hemispherical, 1-2 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 2-3 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical, 3-4 mm long, 4-5 mm wide; disc level; valves 3 or 4, level or exserted.
Habitat
Grows in shallow soils on slopes and ridges, mostly in mixed woodland.
Distribution
Occurs on higher areas of the northern tablelands, N.S.W.
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Eucalyptus | | Species: | acaciiformis | | Common Name: | Wattle-leaved Peppermint |
Relatives in same Genus
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
Eucalyptus leucoxylon var Rosea
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