Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Eucalyptus pilularis Sm., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 3: 284 (1797)
Vernacular Name(s):
blackbutt
Description
Large tree; bark persistent, rather soft and fibrous on trunk, smooth and whitish on branches. Juvenile lvs sessile, amplexicaul, discolorous. Adult lvs with stout petioles 1–1.5 cm long; lamina to 15 × 2.5 cm, narrow-lanceolate, coriaceous, ± concolorous, with distinct intramarginal vein and with numerous, parallel lateral veins diverging at angles of 30–50° to midrib; base ± symmetric; apex long-subulate-acuminate. Umbels axillary, of 7–11 fls; peduncles 1–2 cm long, stout, compressed; pedicels c. 0.5 cm long. Buds c. 8 mm long, yellowish green; operculum ± rostrate, = hypanthium. Stamens whitish; anthers reniform. Fr. pedicellate, 8–11 × 11–14 mm, hemispheric; valves 4, slightly sunken or at rim level; disc 1–2 mm wide, flat or obliquely descending.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Exotic
Phenology
Flowering: Nov.–Mar.
Bibliography
Smith, J. E. 1797: Botanical Characters of some plants of the natural order of Myrti. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 3: 255–288.
Wilcox, M.; Bradshaw, C.; Cameron, E. 2004: Woody plants of the Auckland Domain. Auckland Botanical Society Journal 59(1): 44–56.
