Eucalyptus tenuiramis
Credits
Article from New Trees by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton
Recommended citation
'Eucalyptus tenuiramis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Common Names
- Silver Peppermint
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 radiata
- Eucalyptus regnans
- Eucalyptus remota
- Eucalyptus risdonii
- Eucalyptus rodwayi
- Eucalyptus rubida
- Eucalyptus saligna
- Eucalyptus sideroxylon
- Eucalyptus stellulata
- Eucalyptus subcrenulata
- Eucalyptus urnigera
- Eucalyptus viminalis
Tree 8–25 m, 1 m dbh. Bark whitish grey to yellow, smooth throughout. Branchlets pinkish red to white. Juvenile leaves ovate to almost circular, connate and glaucous. Adult leaves thin and greyish green or glaucous, 5.5–13 × 0.9–2.5 cm, elliptic to broadly lanceolate, lateral veins indistinct, margins entire, apex acuminate or hooked; petiole terete or angular, 0.7–1.2 cm long. Inflorescences simple and axillary; umbellasters with 11–15 flowers. Flower buds club-shaped and glaucous; hypanthium 0.3–0.4 cm wide; stamens white or cream. Capsule hemispherical to conical, glaucous, 0.6–1.1 cm diameter; valves four, flush. Boland et al. 1984, Chippendale 1988. Distribution AUSTRALIA: Tasmania (eastern and southern mainland, Flinders Is.). Habitat A component of open forest or forming pure stands on hills and in lowlands, between 0 and 450 m asl. USDA Hardiness Zone 9. Conservation status Not evaluated.
The weeping habit gives young trees of Eucalyptus tenuiramis a very elegant appearance, especially when the sun catches their pendulous tresses of silver leaves. As they mature, however, they straighten up and the leaves darken, so that an older specimen is not particularly exciting. The species is not very hardy – all of Tom Hart Dyke’s young trees were killed in November 2005 (pers. comm. 2007) – but once established it seems to gain some hardiness. The largest specimen in the United Kingdom is at Kew. Grown from seed collected by Ken Hill in Tasmania in 1988, this has two straight trunks from the base, and was measured at 13 m in 2001 (TROBI).