Eucalyptus bakeri
species of plant
Eucalyptus bakeri, commonly known as Baker's mallee or the mallee box, is a eucalypt that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has fibrous bark on the trunk and smooth white or grey bark above, narrow lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and thirteen, white flowers and hemispherical or shortened spherical fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus bakeri is a mallee that typically grows to a height of 6 metres (20 ft) or a tree to 12 metres (39 ft). It forms a lignotuber and has grey to brown, compact fibrous to flaky bark on the trunk and smooth white or grey bark above that sheds in ribbons through the year. Leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are arranged in opposite pairs, linear to narrow lance-shaped, 50–80 mm (2–3 in) long, 3–5 mm (0.1–0.2 in) wide and lack a petiole. The adult leaves are arranged alternately, linear to narrow lance-shaped, 40–105 mm (2–4 in) long, 5–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) wide with a petiole 5–13 mm (0.2–0.5 in) long, and the same green or yellow-green, glossy appearance on both sides.
The flowers are borne in groups of between seven and thirteen in leaf axils on a peduncle 3–15 mm (0.1–0.6 in) long, the individual flowers on a pedicel 1–2 mm (0.04–0.08 in) long. Mature buds are oblong to spindle-shaped, 8–11 mm (0.3–0.4 in) long and 2–4 mm (0.08–0.2 in) wide with a conical to horn-shaped operculum. Flowering mainly occurs from June to August and the flowers are white. The fruit that follows is a woody, hemispherical to a shortened sphere 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in) long and 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.20 in) in diameter.
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