- Eucalyptus gomphocephala
taxobox
name = Eucalyptus gomphocephala
image_caption = Tuart,Melbourne
regnum =Plantae
unranked_divisio =Angiosperm s
unranked_classis =Eudicot s
unranked_ordo =Rosid s
ordo =Myrtales
familia =Myrtaceae
genus =Eucalyptus
species = "E. gomphocephala"
binomial = "Eucalyptus gomphocephala"
binomial_authority = DC.|pattern of the timber also makes it a popular choice for furniture manufactures, due to over logging the Tuart is a protected tree with conditions placed on logging.
The Tuart has box like rough bark through the length of the trunk to the small branchlets. Leaves are stalked, alternate, lanceolate or falcate to 12 x 2 cm, slightly dicolorous to concolorous, glossy, light green and thin. White flowers appear in mid summer to mid autumn.
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Tuart Forest National Park References
* Bryant, Geoff (2005) "Australian Native Plants" Random House ISBN 978-1-74166-030-2
* Johnston, Judith (1993) "The History of the Tuart Forest" - Pp.136-153 in de Garis, B.K. (editor) "Portraits of the South West: Aborigines, Women and the Environment" Nedlands, W.A. University of Western Australia Press ISBN 1-875560-12-2
* Tuart Response Group (W.A.) (2003) "An Atlas of Tuart woodlands on the Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia" Perth, W. Aust.:Dept. of Conservation and Land Management (coordinated by a multi-disciplinary steering group chaired by the Department of Conservation and Land Management"
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