Eucalyptus melliodora
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Genus
Eucalyptus
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Species
melliodora
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Variety Type
Native
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Variety
Eucalyptus
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Growth Rate
Slow to moderate.
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Foliage
Adult leaves are a dull green to grey-blue colour. Alternate, narrow-lanceolate in shape and up to 14 cm long. Juvenile leaves are elliptic to ovate green to greyish-green and up to 11 cm long.
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Bark
light cream-brown becoming slightly grey with age. can be rough, fibrous and loosley held, shedding in thin flakes in varying degrees and heights on the lower part of the trunk. On the upper smaller branches, often becoming smooth and pale coloured.
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Ornamental Fruit
Globose, with disc descending, usually five valves at rim level or enclosed.
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Tree Habit
Rounded, with a sparse to moderately dense wide crown.
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Flowers
Generally creamy-white clusters of flowers appear toward the tip of branches and terminal panicles have three to seven flowers. Prolific flowering from late September to February.
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Height (m)
20
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Width (m)
9