Eucalyptus cypellocarpa
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Mountain Grey Gum also known as the Mountain Gum, Monkey Gum or Spotted Mountain Grey Gum, is a straight, smooth barked forest tree. Often seen around 20 to 40 metres tall. But in moist protected gullies it may reach heights in excess of 60 metres tall.
in 1962.
is a small to a very tall tree. It has smooth bark with large unusually shaped sheets flaking off. Colours are anywhere from yellow to golden brown, to grey or white. This tree also has some of the longest leaves of this genus, up to 35 cm with a slight sickle shape. Flower buds are white and are shaped much like a cylinder with a cone-shaped tip. Fruit are barrel-shaped 1 cm long by 0.9 cm diameter, with a sunken disk.
forest, in gullies and on mid-altitude hillsides.
From 30.25 to 39 degrees south
, Mountain Gum grows from near sea level altitudes to 1200 m and grows in cool to warm, humid to sub-humid environments.
Temperature distribution from -2°C to 31°C with an annual rainfall of 700 to 1300 mm.
Taxonomy
Eucalyptus cypellocarpa was described by the Australian botanist Lawrie JohnstonLawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist , Director and Honorary Research Associate .Alone or in collaboration with colleagues, he...
in 1962.
Description
This EucalyptusEucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...
is a small to a very tall tree. It has smooth bark with large unusually shaped sheets flaking off. Colours are anywhere from yellow to golden brown, to grey or white. This tree also has some of the longest leaves of this genus, up to 35 cm with a slight sickle shape. Flower buds are white and are shaped much like a cylinder with a cone-shaped tip. Fruit are barrel-shaped 1 cm long by 0.9 cm diameter, with a sunken disk.
Distribution and habitat
Mountain Gum tends to grow in wet sclerophyllSclerophyll
Sclerophyll is the term for a type of vegetation that has hard leaves and short internodes . The word comes from the Greek sclero and phyllon ....
forest, in gullies and on mid-altitude hillsides.
From 30.25 to 39 degrees south
39th parallel south
The 39th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 39 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America....
, Mountain Gum grows from near sea level altitudes to 1200 m and grows in cool to warm, humid to sub-humid environments.
Temperature distribution from -2°C to 31°C with an annual rainfall of 700 to 1300 mm.