Snow Gum White Sallee

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Eucalyptus pauciflora


Rounded, low-branching rounded tree to 30 m with a white to creamy trunk. Bark smooth and waxy blue on the smaller branches. Thick shiny-grey to olive green adult leaves to 16 cm long are lance-shaped. Juvenile bluish-green leaves are oval. Eleven or more club-shaped buds per cluster on thick stalks.


Details
Flora Type
Trees
Former Scientific Name
E pauciflora var. pauciflora
Other Common Names
Cabbage Gum (Tas)
Distinctive Features

Adult leaves have distinctive parallel veins. Some forms are distinctly weeping in form. Cup-shaped fruit on shortstalks with 3 valves level with the rim. Disk flat.

Biology

Perennial. Well-drained soils, often deep sands in grassy woodland and grassy forests, and as scattered tree in grasslands. Tolerates severe cold, often occurs on the margins of frost hollows. Its hardiness make it a popular choice for revegetation projects.

Native Status
Native
Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants)
Order
Myrtales
Family
Myrtaceae
Genus
Eucalyptus
Species
pauciflora

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. Important source of honey. Important food source for some insects and birds.


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Native Status
Native