Eucalyptus coccifera

Eucalyptus coccifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eucalyptus
Species: E. coccifera
Binomial name
Eucalyptus coccifera
Hook.f.

Eucalyptus coccifera, the Tasmanian snow gum or the Mount Wellington Peppermint, is a native tree of Tasmania.[1]

It grows as a shrub on margins of the alpine Central Highland Tasmania.[2]

It grows in subalpine dolerite areas. The species hybridizes with Eucalyptus amygdalina and E. pauciflora.[2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.australiaplants.com/Eucalyptus_coccifera.htm give it the synonymic local name
  2. ^ a b J. B. Kirkpatrick & Sue Backhouse (2004). Native trees of Tasmania (7th ed.). Sandy Bay, Tasmania: Pandani Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0-646-43088-1. 

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