Eucalyptus Nortonii

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

SILVER BUNDY

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.
Flowering white-cream from March to May.
Timber yellow-grey, coarse-grained and not durable.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

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.
Wood splits easily 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.

SIMILAR SPECIES:

Eucalyptus Goniocalyx - Long-leaf Box - and Eucalyptus Nortonii - Silver Bundy - are virtually identical except that Eucalyptus Nortonii has glaucous (white-waxy) buds, fruit and branchlets whereas Long-leaf Box does not.

Both are distinguished from Eucalyptus Bridgesiana - Apple Box - by their larger fruits and buds.
Eucalyptus Goniocalyx - Long-leaf Box - and Eucalyptus Nortonii are virtually identical except that Eucalyptus Nortonii has glaucous (white-waxy) buds, fruit and branchlets whereas Long-leaf Box 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)

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