| Type | Exotic |
|---|---|
| Family | Myrtaceae |
| Common Name | Flooded gum |
| Origin | Australia |
| Botanical Features | Trees to 50 m high; bark white, smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate [seedling leaf opposite for 4 or 5 pairs]; petiole to 30 mm long, slender, glabrous; juvenile leaves 10-14 x 5.5-8.5 cm; adult leaves 10-16 x 2-3 cm, ovate, falcate or lanceolate, base oblique, obtuse, attenuate or subacute, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, gland-dotted; lateral nerves many, pinnate, faint, looped near the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, white, in 7-11 flowered axillary umbels; pedicels to 3.5 mm; hypanthium obconical, to 5 mm, glaucous, ribbed; operculum hemispherical or beaked, to 4 mm; stamens many, 2-7 mm, with a distal adaxial gland; ovary inferior, adnate to the hypanthium, 3-4-celled, ovules many; style simple, stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, 5-8 x 4-6 mm, sessile or pedicellate, pyriform, 4 or 5 valved, often glaucous, disc narrow; seeds many. |