Eucalyptus cordata

Eucalyptus cordata

taxobox
name = Heart-leaved Silver gum



image_caption = "Eucalyptus cordata", Melbourne
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Myrtales
familia = Myrtaceae
genus = "Eucalyptus"
species = "E. cordata"
binomial = "Eucalyptus cordata"
binomial_authority = |

"Eucalyptus cordata", Heart-leafed Silver gum, is a shrub to medium sized tree with bark that is smooth throughout, white, green, purplish, grey or greenish-yellow. Juvenile leaves are stalkless, opposite, stem-clasping, with scalloped edges, round or heart-shaped, to 10x 8 cm, greenish-grey, glaucous; stems square in cross section, shrubs and smaller trees mature and flower in the juvenile phase. Adult leaves are stalked, lanceolate to broad-lanceolate, to 13 x 3.5cm, concolorous, grey-green to glaucous. Buds in axils of leaves, in 3's, stalkless or very shortly stalked, glaucous, to 1 x 0.6cm; base cylindrical; operculum flattened and beaked.

Flowers are white and appear in Mid winter to early spring.

"Eucalyptus cordata" is endemic to Tasmania of restricted distribution in the south-east at intermediate altitudes such as the foothills of Mount Wellington, Snug Plains, Port Arthur and Moogara. The tree makes and attractive ornamental with its large, glaucous juvenile leaves, which often persist in the crown. [Brooker, I. & Kleinig, D., "Eucalyptus, An illustrated guide to identification", Reed Books, Melbourne, 1996]

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