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Eucalyptus baxteri (brown stringybark)

Synonyms: Eucalyptus baxteri var. pedicellata; Eucalyptus capitellata var. latifolia; Eucalyptus santalifolia var. baxteri (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Eucalyptus baxteri, commonly known as brown stringybark is a eucalypt which is native to Australia's south-east, occurring from southern New South Wales through Victoria and into the Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island of eastern South Australia. It is a medium-sized tree which can reach 40 m in height. The rough stringy bark is grey - brown in colour. The broad juvenile leaves are 13 cm by 8 cm, while the leathery adult leaves are 13 cm by 3 cm and lanceolate or falcate and green in colour. Flowering occurs from December to April and the white profuse flowers are up to 2 cm in diameter.
View Wikipedia Record: Eucalyptus baxteri

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Janka Hardness [3]  1690 lbf (767 kgf) Medium
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [4]  0.666
Structure [2]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Flinders Chase National Park II 81245 South Australia, Australia

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Criconema obtusum[8]
Criconema pasticum[8]
Helicotylenchus exallus[8]
Hemicriconemoides insignis[8]
Hemicycliophora arenaria[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 4Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo – about the species Fact Sheet, Published by the Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment Melbourne, September, 2005
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0