Eucalyptus parvula L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Eucalyptus parvula' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-parvula/). Accessed 2024-10-04.

Common Names

  • Small-leaved Gum

Synonyms

  • Eucalyptus parvifolia Cambage

Glossary

alternate
Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
bloom
Bluish or greyish waxy substance on leaves or fruits.
glaucous
Grey-blue often from superficial layer of wax (bloom).
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
linear
Strap-shaped.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
sessile
Lacking a stem or stalk.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Eucalyptus parvula' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-parvula/). Accessed 2024-10-04.

A small, densely crowned tree to about 30 ft high, with a smooth, greyish bark. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile or shortly stalked, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, about 114 in. long, dark green or somewhat glaucous. Adult leaves stalked, alternate or opposite, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 212 in. long but less than 12 in. wide. Flowers in umbels of four to seven on a short common-stalk; buds elliptical, about 15 in. long. Fruits hemispherical, slightly contracted at the apex.

Native of New South Wales, confined to one locality, where it grows at 3,500 to 5,000 ft. It is one of the hardiest species and makes an elegant small tree. Mr Barnard records that of over three hundred plants of a high-altitude provenance raised by him in S. Devon only three were killed in the winter of 1962–3. A specimen thrived for many years in the chalky soil of Messrs Hilliers’ West Hill nursery.

E. nicholii Maiden & Blakely – This species is certainly tender but few eucalypts are more beautiful in the young state. The juvenile leaves are very narrow (14 in. or less wide) and about 2 in. long and coated, like the young stems, with a purple bloom. It makes an elegant tree to 100 ft high, easily distinguished from E. parvifolia by the persistent, fibrous bark. Native of New South Wales.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

There are two examples of this species at Kew: pl. 1961, 38 × 312 ft and, pl. 1972, 44 × 2 ft (1981).

E. nicholii – An example at Abbotsbury, Dorset, measures 46 × 214 ft (1980). Closely allied to this species and described earlier is E. acaciiformis Deane & Maiden. It occurs in the same area as E. nicholii, differing chiefly in its broader leaves (Brooker and Kleinig, op. cit., No. 149). It was introduced to Kew in 1972.