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Eucalyptus viminalis

Labill. (1806)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Myrtales Family: Myrtaceae Genus: Eucalyptus

manna gum

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees 30–50 m tall.

Stems: Bark white or yellowish white, smooth throughout, often with accumulated shedding bark at base of trunk or rough–fibrous on part or all trunk and often also on larger branches.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Adult Alternate. Blades lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 12–20 cm long, 0.8–2.5 cm wide. Apex attenuate. Blades concolorous. Margins entire. Petioles 10–25 mm long. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers 3–7 in axillary, simple umbels, peduncles 4–13 mm long, pedicels absent. buds ovoid, 5–8 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx modified into an operculum; operculum conical or hemispherical–apiculate. Stamens numerous, in several whorls; anthers dithecal. Ovary inferior; ovule placentation axile.

Fruit: Fruit hemispherical to subglobose; 4–8 mm long; 5–9 mm wide; valves 3–4; exserted. Seeds numerous.

Ploidy: 2n = 22

Habitat: Extensively planted on O'ahu and Hawai'i; and regenerating from seed within the plantations.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Eucalyptus viminalis subsp. viminalis

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Only found in cultivation

Island Status

O'ahu Only found in cultivation
Lana'i Unknown
Maui Unknown
Hawai'i Only found in cultivation

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Nov. Holl. Pl. 2: 12 (1806)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Eucalyptus viminalis Honolulu, Tantalus Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Oahu BISH 1929-12-01
2 Eucalyptus viminalis Puu Laau Forestry planting between hunter's cabin and state sheep enclosure. Preserved_Specimen Tall tree with stringy, gray bark, pendent branchlets and peppermint-odored foliage. Herbst, D.R. 5176 Hawaii BISH 1975-01-17
3 Eucalyptus viminalis Honolulu, Tantalus Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Oahu BISH 1929-12-01
4 Eucalyptus viminalis Munro Trail, south side, headwaters of Kapoho Preserved_Specimen Tall trees, bark apparently light colored Oppenheimer, H.L. 91645 Lanai BISH 2016-09-28
5 Eucalyptus viminalis Waimea Village Big Trees in open with big spreading tops. Preserved_Specimen Tree 15 ft., persistent, sub-fibrous; peeling above in ribbons and big long flakes leaving smooth bark with somewhat yellowish hue. (Not on sheet) 61 Hawaii BISH 1932-02-01
6 Eucalyptus viminalis East Maui; Above Ulupalakua on the slopes of Keonehelu cinder cone Preserved_Specimen Large gnarly branched trees with rounded spreading crowns, bark smooth, flaking off in irregular patches Hobdy, R.W. 2612 Maui BISH 1986-07-22
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