Eucalyptus coolabah

Eucalyptus Coolabah

Eucalyptus Coolabah is a flowering plant in the myrtle family ( Myrtaceae ). She comes across Australia, near perennial waters, where it is called " Coolibah " or " Coolabah ", a loan word from the language of the Kamilaroi Aboriginesstammes.

Description

Appearance and leaf

Eucalyptus Coolabah grows as a tree reaching heights of growth of up to 20 meters. The bark is left on the trunk and larger branches is gray with whitish patches, fibrous- flaky, smooth above, white or gray and peels in short ribbons from.

In Eucalyptus Coolabah is available Heterophyllie. The leaves of young specimens are lanceolate to broad - lanceolate and dull gray - green to blue - green. The same color dull gray - green leaves on adult specimens are narrow - lanceolate to lanceolate with a length of 8 to 17 cm and a width of 1 to 2 cm.

Inflorescence and flower

On a cross-sectional narrow - flattened or angular, 1-9 mm long inflorescence stem are about siebenblütige part inflorescences in total composite inflorescences. The stalk round flower stalk is 1-4 mm long. The blue - green frosted flower bud ovoid, with a length of 2 to 4.5 mm and a diameter of 2 to 3 mm. The calyptra conical, longer than the flower cup ( hypanthium ) and exactly as broad as this. All stamens are fertile ( fertile ). The stamens are irregularly bent in the bud. The anthers are oblong.

Fruit

The fruit is spherical or hemispherical, with a length and a diameter of 2-4 mm. The disc is flat and narrow, the fruit trays protrude.

Occurrence

Eucalyptus Coolabah is a dominant species in some locations and grows in grassy, light forest on heavy clay soils in the vicinity of perennial waters. The main distribution area extends from western and northern New South Wales over the southern and central Queensland over the center of the continent to the north of Western Australia.

System

The first description of Eucalyptus Coolabah was made in 1934 by William Faris Blakely in A Key to the Eucalypts, pp. 245-246. A synonym for Eucalyptus Coolabah Blakely & Jacobs is Eucalyptus microtheca F.Muell.

From Eucalyptus Coolabah after World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of Kew in 2008, Flora of New South Wales Online are three subspecies:

• Eucalyptus Coolabah subsp. arida ( Blakely ) LASJohnson & KDHill, syn. Eucalyptus Coolabah var arida Blakely: buds, fruits and twigs blue-green, Calyptra rounded and blunt, leaves of adult specimens thick.
• Eucalyptus Coolabah Blakely & Jacobs subsp. Coolabah: buds, fruits and twigs from blue-green.
• Eucalyptus Coolabah subsp. excerata LASJohnson & KDHill: buds, fruits and branches are blue - green, calyptra conical and pointed, leaves of adult specimens thin.

Folk song

In the Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda Eucalyptus Coolabah is mentioned:

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a tree coolibah, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a - Waltzing Matilda with me.