Eucalyptus cameronii
Eucalyptus cameronii, commonly known as the diehard stringybark is a flowering plant that is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small to medium-sized tree with rough, stringy bark from the trunk to the small branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flowers buds in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped, hemispherical or more or less spherical fruit. It mainly grows on the eastern side of the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales.
Description
Eucalyptus cameronii is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The bark is rough, stringy, grey to brownish and extends to the smaller branches. The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are arranged in opposite pairs near the ends of the stems, elliptic to lance-shaped, long and wide and a different colour on either side. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same or slightly different shades of glossy green on either side, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of between nine and fifteen on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds sessile or on a pedicel up to long. Mature buds are spindle-shaped to oval, long and wide with a rounded to conical operculum. Flowering has been observed in March and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical or flattened spherical capsule long and wide, with the valves at the same level or slightly above the rim.This eucalypt is similar to E. globoidea but has smaller buds and fruit, and the fruit has a narrower disc. It is also similar to E. caliginosa which has the valves of the fruit extended beyond the rim.