Blue mallet (Eucalyptus gardneri)
Description
Eucalyptus gardneri, commonly known as Blue mallet, is a tree that is native to Western Australia.The Noongar peoples know the tree as Woacal. The tree typically grows to a height of 5 to 10 metres (16 to 33 ft) and can reach as high as 15 m (49 ft). It has mostly smooth bark with some decorticated flakes. The bark is grey or brown in colour with pith glands present but bark glands absent. The dull, grey-green or yellow-green, thick and concolorous adult leaves have a disjunct arrangement. The leaf blades have a lanceolate shape and are basally tapered. Leaves are supported by narrowly flattened or channelled petioles. It blooms between February and December producing conflorescences with yellow-cream flowers. Each simple, axillary conflorescence has seven to eleven flowered umbellasters on narrowly flattened or angular peduncles. The mature buds are long and smooth and have long horn-shaped operculum. Following flowering cylindrical or pyriform fruits form with a depressed disc with rim-level or exserted valves. The species was first formally described by the botanist Joseph Maiden in 1924 as part of the work A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus. The species is named in honour of Charles Austin Gardner who collected the type specimen in 1922 from near Bendering along the railway line that runs between Narrogin and Narembeen.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Myrtales
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Family: Myrtaceae
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Genus: Eucalyptus
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