Budawang Ash at Blue Mountains National Park
Identification history
| Eucalyptus dendromorpha | 11 Jun 2024 | Steve818 | ||
| Eucalyptus stricta | 19 Apr 2024 | Tapirlord | ||
| Eucalyptus burgessiana | 18 Apr 2024 | Steve818 | ||
| Unidentified | 17 Apr 2024 | MatthewFrawley |
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User's notes
Some sort of cliff top mallee, leaves broader than E. stricta.
11 comments
Steve818
wrote:
18 Apr 2024
I get to E.stricta or E.burgessiana on EUCLID. Buds are more pyriform shaped than standard images for E.burgessiana. So I am uncertain, as I am not sure about integrades with the green-leaved mallee ashes.
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
18 Apr 2024
I suggested this one as E. stricta: Eucalyptus stricta (Blue Mountains Mallee Ash)
Tapirlord
wrote:
19 Apr 2024
I would say E.stricta, it is far more common around katoomba. Though It's not a group I know well either, really the person you want to look at it is Dean Nicolle. He is easy to contact via inat
Steve818
wrote:
19 Apr 2024
Yes, and PLANTNET mentions lots of integrades of E.stricta with other closely related. So that might explain wider leaves. The buds look more like E.stricta.
Steve818
wrote:
20 Apr 2024
I reviewed the EUCLID key and in the notes it says E.stricta can have leaves up to 1.6cm wide.
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
20 Apr 2024
The second photo shows the leaves with my fingers, which are about 1.6cm wide, so I think some of the leaves were a bit wider than that.
Steve818
wrote:
23 Apr 2024
A good example of E.burgessiana https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4568207
Steve818
wrote:
7 Jun 2024
Reviewing the images again: The oil glands are irregular which points to E.stricta or E.burgessiana - although in E.burgessiana they appear less so. But the leaf width places it just outside the maximum listed for E.stricta on EUCLID. I will email Dean Nicolle this sighting link to see if he can resolve for us.
Steve818
wrote:
11 Jun 2024
@MatthewFrawley and @Tapirlord : Dr Dean Nicolle got back to me and said it is likely to be E.dendromorpha. It is a common species on and around wet cliffs in the central Blue Mountains, and closely related to E.stricta and E.burgessiana. Older Eucalypt books and EUCLID only list as a tree, hence why when keying out there was some confusion. I compared with a sighting on the South Coast that was identified as E.dendromorpha too, and they are a good match. Interestingly the older texts and EUCLID say it does not have a lignotuber, but that now needs revising. After the 2019-20 fires a lot of E.dendromorpha went from tree form to mallee form, so a lignotuber was present. Maybe there are populations with and without lignotubers.
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
11 Jun 2024
Awesome information @Steve818 many thanks again. It really did look like a different tree to the other E. stricta I saw nearby.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.308850-33.730388
- Altitude 971.0m
- Maps Blue Mountains National Park
- Places Katoomba, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 17 Apr 2024 03:46 PM Recorded on
- MatthewFrawley Recorded by
Additional information
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
- Alive / healthy Plant health
Species information
- Eucalyptus dendromorpha Scientific name
- Budawang Ash Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 971m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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