An Introduction to the Eucalypts
[This information taken from - Chippendale, G.M. Eucalyptus. In: Chippendale, G.M. (1988). Flora of Australia Vol. 19, Myrtaceae, Eucalyptus, Angophora, Australian Government Publising Service, Canberra.]
Eucalyptus perriniana F.Muell. ex Rodway
Reference:
F.Muell. ex Rodway, Pap. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania for 1893: 181 (1893).
Type:
T: Hamilton District, Tas., Mr. Dicker, Superintendent Hedbe
rg; n.v.
[E. gunnii var. montana J.D.Hook., Bot. Mag. 127: t. 7808, figs 1, 2 (1901) as to description but not as to type].
Illustrations:
N.Hall & M.I.H.Brooker, Forest Tree Ser. No. 123 (1973); L.Costermans, Native Trees & Shrubs S.E. Australia 363 (1981); M.I.H.Brooker & D.A.Kleinig, Field Guide to Eucalypts 1: 231 (1983).
Description:
Mallee to 6 m or straggly tree to 9 m. Bark smooth throughout, bronze, white-green or grey, or often a short stocking of persistent bark at trunk base. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, connate, orbicular, glaucous, slightly discolorous, often persisting on mature plants. Adult leaves alternate or subopposite, lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 8-13 cm long, 1.2-2.5 cm wide, dull, grey-green or blue-green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 25°-45°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete or flattened, 10-15 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle terete, glaucous, 2-5 mm long; pedicels absent or to 2 mm long. Buds ovoid, glaucous; operculum hemispherical to conical, 2-3 mm long, 3-4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3-4 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical, glaucous, sessile, 5-7 mm long and wide; disc narrow, level or descending; valves 3-5, level.
Common name:
Spinning Gum.
Distribution:
Occurs in N.S.W., A.C.T. and Vic., in high montane areas from the Tinderry Ra. to the Dargo High Plains and in central and eastern Tas., in subalpine woodland on plateaus and slopes.
Notes:
A useful ornamental shrub, the silvery leaves being used in floral arrangements. Common name refers to detached but persistent juvenile leaf pairs spinning in the wind.