Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora
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| Snow gum | |
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| Subspecies pauciflora in Deakin | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | E. p. subsp. pauciflora |
| Trinomial name | |
| Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora | |
Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora, commonly known as snow gum, cabbage gum or white sally[2] is a tree or mallee that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has smooth bark, glossy green, lance-shaped, curved or elliptical leaves, flower buds in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped, hemispherical or conical fruit.
Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora is a tree or mallee that typically grows to a height of 30 m (98 ft) and forms a lignotuber. The bark is smooth, grey, white or cream-coloured with patches of yellow and usually has insect scribbles. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull bluish green or glaucous, broadly lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves that are 44–170 mm (1.7–6.7 in) long, 20–85 mm (0.79–3.35 in) wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, curved or elliptical, 60–200 mm (2.4–7.9 in) long and 12–50 mm (0.47–1.97 in) wide, on a petiole 8–33 mm (0.31–1.30 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of between nine and fifteen on an unbranched peduncle 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long, the individual buds on pedicels up to 6 mm (0.24 in) long. Mature buds are oval, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) long and 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) wide with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between August and April and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody cup-shaped, hemispherical or conical capsule 5–11 mm (0.20–0.43 in) long and wide with the valves near rim level or below it.[2][3]