Eucalyptus gregsoniana

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Wolgan Snow gum
Eucalyptus gregsoniana, Melbourne
Eucalyptus gregsoniana, Melbourne
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eucalyptus
Species: E. gregsoniana
Binomial name
Eucalyptus gregsoniana
E. gregsoniana, field distribution
E. gregsoniana, field distribution

Eucalyptus gregsoniana, Wolgan Snow gum is a mallee to 5 metres. With bark smooth throughout, white or grey, shedding in long ribbons to shedding in short ribbons with green branchlets.

Adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate, falcate, acute, oblique or basally tapered, glossy, grey-green, thick, concolorous, 7–11 cm long, 1.2–2.5 mm wide.

White or cream flowers appear in summer in clusters of 7.

Distribution is Sporadic and scattered; mallee heath on sandy soils of limited drainage in elevated areas.[1]

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