Eucalyptus amygdalina
Black peppermint
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Plant information
Common name: Black peppermint
Conservation status: Not threatened
Etymology:
The name Eucalyptus is from the Ancient Greek words eu meaning 'good'and kalypto meaning '(I) cover, conceal, hide', referring to the operculum covering the flower buds
The specific epithet (amygdalina) means "almond"
Flowers:
The flowers are borne in groups of eleven to fifteen or more in leaf axils on a peduncle 4–10 mm long,
Individual flowers on a pedicel 1–5 mm long
The buds are oval to club-shaped, 3–5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide and the stamens are white
Flowering mainly occurs from November to January
Fruit:
Cup-shaped to hemispherical
4–7 mm long and wide
Leaves:
The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are arranged in opposite pairs, lance-shaped or curved, 28–55 mm long, 2–11 mm (0.079–0.433 in) wide and sessile
Adult leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, the same shade of bluish green on both sides
Lance-shaped to linear, 55–120 mm long and 4–12 mm wide
On a petiole 4–20 mm long
Stem & branches:
It has rough, finely fibrous bark on most or all of the trunk and base of the larger branches
Smooth greyish bark above
Roots:
Habit:
It is a small to medium-sized tree
Typically grows to a height of 30 m and forms a lignotuber
Habitat:
It is part of dry eucalypt forest communities
Distribution:
Endemic to Tasmania
Widespread in the drier, north-eastern side of the island
From coastal areas extending well inland to the edges of plateaux
Additional notes:
Taxonomy
Eucalyptus amygdalina was first formally described in 1806 by Jacques Labillardière
In his book Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen
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