Eucalyptus nitida
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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 cypellocarpa
- 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 pulchella
- 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
Editorial Note
Treated by Bean under the name E. siimmondsii.
A tree to 65 ft high; bark on trunk persistent, dark grey and fibrous, but smooth and peeling on the branches. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile or almost so, ovate to broadly lanceolate, pointed at the apex, dark green or glaucous and often with crimson margins and midrib. Adult leaves stalked, narrowly elliptic, to 6 in. long but less than 1 in. wide. Flowers seven to twenty-three in dense umbels; buds club-shaped. Fruit in dense, globose clusters which remain on the branches for several years.
Native of W. Tasmania from sea-level to about 1,500 ft. There is an example of this species in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden raised from seed received in 1949; it measures 55 × 3 ft (1970). It is still growing quickly and very wind-firm. In other Scottish gardens too it is proving satisfactory.