Mountain graygum
Eucalyptus goniocalyx
Western Herbalism Properties
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Botanical Description
Eucalyptus goniocalyx, commonly known as long-leaved box or bundy box, is a small to medium-sized tree in the family Myrtaceae endemic to south-eastern Australia, occurring in Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia. It typically grows 10 to 25 metres tall with a stout, often crooked trunk and rough, persistent, fibrous to flaky grey-brown bark on the trunk and larger branches, while the smaller branches shed in ribbons to reveal smooth pale wood. Juvenile leaves are opposite, sessile, broadly ovate to round and glaucous, while adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 10 to 22 centimetres long, dull green to slightly bluish, and pendulous. White flowers are produced in axillary umbels of seven, each bud club-shaped with a conical or beaked operculum, opening from autumn to winter. Fruits are sessile or shortly stalked, hemispherical to barrel-shaped capsules 6 to 10 millimetres across with valves enclosed within the rim. It grows in dry sclerophyll forest and rocky hillside woodland.
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