Eucalyptus oblonga

Narrow Leaved Stringybark
Stringy bark of Eucalyptus oblonga, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eucalyptus
Species:	E. oblonga
Binomial name
Eucalyptus oblonga DC.
Synonyms
Eucalyptus deformis Blakely Eucalyptus globoidea Blakely

Eucalyptus oblonga, known by the common name Stringybark, is a tree native to eastern Australia. It has thick, fibrous stringy bark usually colored grey over reddish brown. Occurring on the poorest soils in high rainfall areas. Restricted and localised around Sydney. Well suited to skeletal soils and frequent fires.

Referred to as Narrow-Leaved Stringybark in textbooks, but as Stingybark by locals. The leaves are not particularly narrow, being 6 to 10 cm long, 1.5 to 2.8 cm wide. The same shade of green on both sides, somewhat glossy. Lanceolate or sickle shaped, alternate on the stem. Juvenile leaves starting as opposite on the stem, ovate in shape.

A small tree up to 15 metres tall. Flowering in late summer to Easter. Gumnuts are practically stalkless, crowded together, up to 8 mm in diameter.

broad coppice leaves of Eucalyptus oblonga after fire at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia

gumnuts of Eucalyptus oblonga at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia

References

• "Eucalyptus oblonga". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~oblonga. Retrieved 2010-01-26. 
• A Field Guide to Eucalypts - Brooker & Kleinig volume 1, ISBN 0909605629 page 74