Eucalyptus psammitica
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| Bastard white mahogany | |
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| Eucalyptus psammitica near Kremnos | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. psammitica |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus psammitica | |
Eucalyptus psammitica, commonly known as bastard white mahogany,[2] is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy or fibrous, prickly bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit.
Eucalyptus psammitica is a tree that typically grows to a height of 15–20 m (49–66 ft) and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, stringy or fibrous, loose, grey or grey-brown bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have mostly sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs, paler on the lower surface and egg-shaped, 65–110 mm (2.6–4.3 in) long and 20–50 mm (0.79–1.97 in) wide. Adult leaves are more or less the same shade of glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, 70–180 mm (2.8–7.1 in) long and 12–30 mm (0.47–1.18 in) wide, tapering to a petiole 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of between seven and eleven on an unbranched peduncle 5–18 mm (0.20–0.71 in) long, the individual buds on pedicels 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) long. Mature buds are oval, 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) long and 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) wide with a conical to beaked operculum. Flowering occurs from October to November and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped to hemispherical capsule 7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in) long and 8–9 mm (0.31–0.35 in) wide with the valves near rim level.[2][3][4]