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List of Corymbia and Angophora at the ANBG with photographed species in pink:
ANGOPHORA:
A cosata subsp. costata
A cosata subsp. leiocarpa
A crassifolia
A floribunda
A hispeda
A melaloxylon
A subvelutina
CORYMBIA:
C 'Summer Red'
C aperrenrinja
C calophylla
C chippendalei
C citiodorra
C clarcksoniana
C aremaea
C eximia
C ficifolia 'Dwarf Crimson'
C ficifolia 'Dwarf Orange'
C ficifolia 'Little Sweetie'
C ficifolia 'Precious Pearl'
C ficifolia 'Wildfire'
C gummifera
C henryi
C leichhardtii
C lenziana
C trachyphloia
C watsonia
Bark:
Smooth pinkish or orange-brown
Weathers to grey and is shed in small scales
Adult leaves:
Opposite pairs, glossy green but paler on the lower surface, lance-shaped or curved
70–190 mm long and 12–35 mm wide
Petiole 9–25 mm
Juvenile growth:
Sessile, elliptical to egg-shaped, arranged leaves in opposite pairs with a stem-clasping base
60–125 mm by 20–65 mm
New leaf growth is strongly tinted red
Buds:
Arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle 3–25 mm long, each branch of the peduncle with usually three buds on pedicels 3–15 mm long.
Mature buds are oval to globe-shaped, up to 10 mm long and 11 mm wide.
Flowers:
There are five sepals up to 3 mm long and the petals are white to creamy white with a green keel,
3–5 mm long and 3–6 mm wide. Flowering occurs from October to December.
Fruit:
Oval or bell-shaped capsule up to 20 mm long and wide.
New seedlings have petiolate round cotyledon leaves 15 mm wide and long.
Angophora hespida Dwarf Apple
Size: Up to 7 m
Habit: Mallee
Bark: Greyish flaky bark.
Adult leaves:
Ovate to elliptic and opposite
50–100 mm by 30–45 mm
Blunt rounded apex, and a heart-shaped base
Pale yellow-green above and greyish on their undersurface
Petiole is 0–4 mm
Juvenile growth:
New growth is covered in reddish hairs
Buds:
Developing buds are covered in reddish hair.
Globular in shape with longitudinal ribbing, they grow to a diameter of 9–13 mm.
Flowers:
Flowering takes place from November to January.
The showy creamy-white flower heads are terminal and umbellate, each composed of three to seven flowers on 0.8–3.2 cm long pedicels, which in turn branch off from a 1.5–7 cm long peduncle.
Fruit:
Cup-shaped woody seed pods or fruit, which measure 15–26 mm long and 13–20 mm in diameter.
These shed the mature seed in February and March.
The oval-shaped seeds are brown and flat, measuring 8–10 mm long.
Distribution Sc name - GFD license. Map crated April 2007.
Habitat: x
Angophora melanoxylon black wood Black Morrel
Size: – m.
Habit:
Eucalyptus melanoxylon is a tree that typically grows to a height of 4–24 m
sometimes a robust mallee, and forms a lignotuber.
It has hard, thick, fissured bark on the trunk and larger branches or sometimes only on the lower half, and white to greyish bark above.
Bark: x
Adult leaves:
Linear to narrow lance-shaped
Adult leaves are the same glossy green on both surfaces,
72–110 mm by 7–12 mm
Petiole 7–15 mm
Juvenile growth:
Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull greenish leaves that are lance-shaped,
40–75 mm long and 12–30 mm (0.47–1.18 in) wide.
Buds:
Mature buds are oval, 5–8 mm long and 3–5 mm wide
with a conical to rounded operculum.
Flowers:
The flower buds are arranged in groups of between seven and fifteen on an unbranched peduncle 8–15 mm long,
the individual buds on pedicels 3–5 mm long.
Fruit:
Flowering occurs between November and March and the flowers are white.
The fruit is a woody conical to cup-shaped capsule 4–6 mm long and 5–6 mm wide
with the valves protruding
Distribution Sc name - GFD license. Map crated April 2007.
Habitat: x
Corymbria citiodorra Lemon Scented Gum
Size: – m.
Habit:
Corymbia citriodora is a tree that typically grows to a height of 25–40 m, sometimes to 50 m and forms a lignotuber.
Bark:
Smooth, pale, uniform or slightly mottled, white to pink or coppery bark that is shed in thin flakes.
Adult leaves:
Same shade of glossy green on both sides
Often lemon-scented when crushed
Narrow lance-shaped to curved
100–230 mm long and 6–28 mm
Tapering to a petiole 10–25 mm
Juvenile growth:
Egg- to lance-shaped leaves
80–210 mm by 32–80 mm
Buds:
The flower buds are borne in leaf axils on a branched peduncle 3–10 mm long, each branch with three buds on pedicels 1–6 mm long.
Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, 6–10 mm long and 5–7 mm wide
with a rounded, conical or slightly beaked operculum
Flowers:
White
Most months
Fruit:
Woody urn-shaped or barrel-shaped capsule
8–15 mm long and 7–12 mm wide
with the valves enclosed in the fruit.
Distribution Sc name - GFD license. Map crated April 2007.
Habitat: x
Size: – m. that typically grows to a height of 10 m
Habit:
a straggly tree
and forms a lignotuber.
Bark:
It has rough, fibrous brownish bark on the trunk and branches.
Note:
C. haemotoxylon and C. calophylla differ in having tessellated bark
Adult leaves:
Dull to slightly glossy, paler on the lower surface
Egg- to broadly lance-shaped
70–130 mm by 25–50 mm
Tapering to petiole of 8–20 mm
Juvenile growth:
Buds:
Branched peduncle 15–32 mm
7 buds per branch on pedicels of 13–27 mm
Oval to pear-shaped
12–18 mm long and 6–8 mm wide
Rounded to flattened operculum
Flowers:
Bright red to pink or orange
December to May
Fruit:
The fruit is a woody urn-shaped capsule
20–42 mm long and 18–30 mm wide
with the valves enclosed in the fruit.
Distribution Sc name - GFD license. Map crated April 2007.
Habitat: x
Comparison cultivars
Corymbia ficifolia 'Dwarf Orange'
Corymbia ficifolia 'Summer Beauty'
Corymbia ficifolia "Summer Red"
Alternate fruit shape
Bark:
It has rough, brown and greyish bark on the trunk, often also on the larger branches.
Adult leaves:
Usually glossy dark green, paler on the lower surface
Narrow lance-shaped to lance-shaped
65–140 mm by 9–26 mm
Tapering to a petiole 8–20 mm
Juvenile growth:
Lance-shaped, glossy green leaves that are paler on the lower surface
50–120 mm by 10–35 mm
Petiole is attached to the underside of the leaf blade
Buds:
The flower buds are arranged on a branched peduncle 4–13 mm long, each branch of the peduncle with seven buds on pedicels 2–7 mm long.
Mature buds are pear-shaped, 4–5 mm long and 2–4 mm wide
with a rounded operculum.
Flowers:
White
December to June
Fruit:
The fruit is a thin-walled, urn-shaped capsule 6–10 mm long and 5–8 mm wide
with the valves enclosed in the fruit.
Distribution Sc name - GFD license. Map crated April 2007.
Habitat:
Corymbia watsoniana Large-fruited Yellowjacket
Size: – m.
Habit:
typically grows to a height of 15–20 m
and forms a lignotuber.
Bark:
It has rough, flaky to tessellated yellowish to brownish bark on the trunk and branches
Adult leaves:
Same shade of green on both sides
Egg- to broadly lance-shaped
90–215 mm by 18–65 mm
Petiole 13–40 mm
Juvenile growth:
Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves that are the same shade of dull green on both sides, egg-shaped to lance-shaped
120–210 mm long, 50–95 mm wide and petiolate.
Buds:
The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle 9–45 mm long, each branch of the peduncle with seven buds on pedicels 4–18 mm long.
Mature buds are oval, 15–20 mm long and 12–17 mm wide with a flattened to rounded operculum with a small point in the centre.
The operculum is much wider than the floral cup.
Flowers:
Creamy white
June
Fruit:
Woody barrel-shaped to urn-shaped or more or less cylindrical capsule
20–32 mm long and 18–24 mm wide
valves enclosed in the fruit
Distribution Sc name - GFD license. Map crated April 2007.
Habitat:
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Size: – m.
Habit: x
Bark: x
Adult leaves: x
Juvenile growth: x
Buds: x
Flowers: x
Fruit: x
Distribution Sc name - GFD license. Map crated April 2007.
Habitat: x
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