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YELLOW BOX
Eucalyptus melliodora
Plant Family
Myrtaceae
Alternative Common Names
honey box, yellow jacket, dargan, yellow ironbox, honey-scented gum.
Medium sized to tall graceful tree to 25m high with weeping branches. Bark - brown, somewhat fibrous and persistent on all lower trunk, yellowish or green and smooth above.
Leaves - alternate, narrow to broad, 7.15cm long, 7.25mm wide, bright to dull green or somewhat bluish.
Flowers - whitish, borne in clusters of 7.
Fruit - hemispherical, 5-7mm diameter, shortly stalked, the valves small and enclosed.
Flowering spring – summer, usually more heavily every second year.
Habitat
Almost exclusively on sandy or loamy alluvial soils of the major river floodplains, with isolated pockets of occurrence on highly fertile basaltic soils.
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