Budawang Ash

Eucalyptus dendromorpha is a tree that typically grows to a height of 15 m (49 ft) but sometimes to 30 m (98 ft), and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, compacted scaly, flaky or short-fibrous bark on the base of the trunk, smooth grey or white bark above, the smooth bark often with insect scribbles. Young plants and coppice regrowth have elliptic leaves that are glossy green but paler on the lower surface, 75–140 mm (3.0–5.5 in) long and 20–50 mm (0.79–1.97 in) wide. Adult leaves are the same glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, 70–120 mm (2.8–4.7 in) long and 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) wide on a petiole 6–15 mm (0.24–0.59 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven, on an unbranched peduncle 6–15 mm (0.24–0.59 in) long, the individual buds on a pedicel 2–6 mm (0.079–0.236 in) long. Mature flower buds are oval to club-shaped, 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide with a conical to rounded operculum with a small point on the tip. Flowering mainly occurs in December and January and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody cup-shaped or barrel-shaped capsule 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long and 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) wide on a pedicel 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) long and with the valves enclosed below the rim of the fruit.

Eucalyptus dendromorpha grows in forest on the ranges south from Mount Tomah in the Blue Mountains to Monga near Braidwood.

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