Yellow Box

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Yellow Box - Colleen Miller

Eucalyptus melliodora

Medium-sized open tree 10- 30 m in height. Loose fibrous to scaly bark yellow-brown on most of the trunk, twisting from the trunk on older trees. Remainder of trunk smooth, pale grey to yellow. Lance-shaped adult leaves vary in length from 6-14 cm and are dull green in colour with veins well inside the margin. Juvenile grey-green leaves are oval and stalked. Seven club-shaped buds per cluster.

Details
Flora Type
Trees
Distinctive Features

Fruit on slender stalks with four or five valves. Disk sunken.
Biology

Perennial. Well-drained alluvial soils and loams in a range of habitat types including woodland, forest and chenopod shrublands.
Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Sep-Feb
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Myrtales
Family
Myrtaceae
Genus
Eucalyptus
Species
melliodora

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

The seed and inner bark of some Eucalyptus species were used as a food source by Aboriginal people, as well as the gum and leaves for medicial purposes and wood and bark for fibre. This species is highly regarded for honey and timber.

Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native