Sources:
Centre for Plant and Biodiversity Research, 2006, EUCLID - Eucalypts of Australia, CSIRO
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database], National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov
Eucalyptus obliqua
Eucalyptus obliqua L'Hér.
Family: Myrtaceae, Subfamily: Myrtoideae, Tribe: Eucalypteae, Genus: Eucalyptus, Subgenus: Eucalyptus, Section: Eucalyptus
Common Name: Messmate stringybark
Distribution: Widespread in SE Australia. Speciman taken from Huon Valley, TAS.
General Information: Tree that grows to around 90metres tall. The sample taken by botanist David Nelson from Tasmania on Bruny Island during on Cook's third voyage. It was officially named by a french botanist Charles-Louis L'Heritier. The name obliqua was derived from the Latin, obliquus, meaning 'oblique', describing the leaf base.
Bark: Furrowed, stringy to fibrous, rough all the way to small branches, brown to grey-brown.
Leaves: Lanceolate to falcate, base usually oblique. Concolourous, glossy, green, sparsely to moderately reticulate veination with intramarginal vein that runs parallel to margin. Irregular or obscure island oil glands.
Inflorescences: Auxillary, unbranched, 11-15 or more perumbell, Buds clavate, no scar, hemispherical operculum. Flowering period Dec-Mar, flowers white.
Fruit: Barrel-shaped, valves 3 or 4 to rim level or enclosed.
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