Eucalyptus cypellocarpa
Credits
Article from New Trees by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton
Recommended citation
'Eucalyptus cypellocarpa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Common Names
- Mountain Grey Gum
Other taxa in genus
- Eucalyptus acaciiformis
- Eucalyptus albida
- Eucalyptus amygdalina
- Eucalyptus archeri
- Eucalyptus blakelyi
- Eucalyptus bridgesiana
- Eucalyptus brookeriana
- Eucalyptus camaldulensis
- Eucalyptus camphora
- Eucalyptus chapmaniana
- Eucalyptus cinerea
- Eucalyptus coccifera
- Eucalyptus cordata
- Eucalyptus crenulata
- Eucalyptus dalrympleana
- Eucalyptus delegatensis
- Eucalyptus elliptica
- Eucalyptus fastigata
- Eucalyptus fraxinoides
- Eucalyptus globulus
- Eucalyptus gregsoniana
- Eucalyptus gunnii
- Eucalyptus johnstonii
- Eucalyptus kybeanensis
- Eucalyptus lacrimans
- Eucalyptus laophila
- Eucalyptus leucoxylon
- Eucalyptus macarthurii
- Eucalyptus macrorhyncha
- Eucalyptus mannifera
- Eucalyptus melliodora
- Eucalyptus mitchelliana
- Eucalyptus moorei
- Eucalyptus morrisbyi
- Eucalyptus neglecta
- Eucalyptus nicholii
- Eucalyptus nitens
- Eucalyptus nova-anglica
- Eucalyptus obliqua
- Eucalyptus oreades
- Eucalyptus ovata
- Eucalyptus parvula
- Eucalyptus pauciflora
- Eucalyptus praecox
- Eucalyptus radiata
- Eucalyptus regnans
- Eucalyptus remota
- Eucalyptus risdonii
- Eucalyptus rodwayi
- Eucalyptus rubida
- Eucalyptus saligna
- Eucalyptus sideroxylon
- Eucalyptus stellulata
- Eucalyptus subcrenulata
- Eucalyptus tenuiramis
- Eucalyptus urnigera
- Eucalyptus viminalis
Tree to 65 m. Bark yellowish white or grey, largely smooth, though may be rough on trunk and main branches. Branchlets green. Juvenile leaves opposite, shiny green, broadly lanceolate to ovate, sessile. Adult leaves alternate, green, 11–20 × 1–2.5 cm, lanceolate, lateral veins distinct, margins entire, apex acuminate, falcate; petiole slightly flattened, 1.5–2.5 cm long. Inflorescences axillary and solitary; umbellasters with seven flowers. Flower buds ovoid, angular; hypanthium cylindrical, ribbed, 0.4–0.5 cm wide; stamens white or cream. Capsule cylindrical to ovoid, 0.6–0.9 cm diameter; valves three, level or included. Chippendale 1988, Hill 2004. Distribution AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Victoria. Habitat Wet forest on deep, fertile soils. USDA Hardiness Zone (9–)10. Conservation status Not evaluated.
The Gum Group (2007) consider this handsome blue gum to be well worth trying, but have found it to be very tender in its early stages. Once it has got going it may increase in hardiness, as a specimen in the John F. Kennedy Arboretum, Co. Wexford was 22 m tall (64 cm dbh) in 2000 (Johnson 2007).