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Eucalyptus Goniocalyx

Tree
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Price:
$110.00 (including GST)
Common Name:
LONG LEAF BOX
Quantity of Trays:

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.


WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

  • Trees to 15m high with fibrous flaky grey bark with whitish patches, shedding in short ribbons above. Narrow green adult leaves.
  • Timber yellow-grey, coarse-grained and not durable. Sapwood decays rapidly.
  • Flowering white-cream from March to May.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Widespread, in most catchments and districts on the drier hills and slopes.
    Grassy woodlands on various soils. Commonly moderately fertile soils.
    Compact loams, below 800m elevation. 
    Tolerates frost, winter waterlogging and drought.
    Found on dry, rocky hills mainly west of the Hume Highway. 
  • In most of the region except in the far west and north-west.
  • Open grassy or sclerophyll woodland. Dry shallow soils on sloping sites.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks. Useful shade due to dense canopy and suitability for harsh exposed hilltops.
  • Useful for revegetating unproductive, rocky recharge hills.
  • Easily split and burns fast.
  • Excellent habitat. Foliage is koala forage. Nectar-feeding birds attracted to flowers, which are pollen-rich. Insect-eating birds such as thornbills find insects amongst foliage. White-throated Treecreepers and sittellas glean bark. Fruits and seeds eaten by native birds, particularly parrots. Hollows are nesting and refuge sites for native birds and mammals.
  • Juvenile foliage particularly attractive.
  • Leaves produce range of dyes depending on mordants used.

SIMILAR SPECIES: 

  • Virtually identical to the Eucalpytus Nortonii - Silver Bundy - except that the Eucalpytus Nortonii has glaucous (white-waxy) buds, fruit and branchlets whereas Eucalyptus Goniocalyx does not. 
  • Both are distinguished from Eucalyptus Bridgesiana - Apple Box - by their larger fruits and buds.

 

 

 

Image Source: Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)