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Eucalyptus tetraptera - amazingly big fruit pod/flower  Eamw flora,Eucalyptus tetraptera,Square-fruited mallee Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Eucalyptus tetraptera - amazingly big fruit pod/flower

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  1. Locally endemic, nice one! Posted 6 years ago

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''Eucalyptus tetraptera'', square-fruited mallee,also four-winged mallee is a low, straggly mallee with smooth, grey or whitish-grey bark. Juvenile leaves are stalked, ovate to broadly elliptical, to 12 × 7 cm. Adult leaves are stalked, elliptical to lanceolate, thick, to 25 × 7 cm, concolorous and glossy green. Flowers are pink in late winter to mid summer. Fruit is red, sessile, oblong and winged along corners to 5 × 4.2 cm.

The distribution is limited to coastal sandplains of.. more

Similar species: Myrtles, Evening Primroses.
Species identified by Ernst
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Uploaded Jun 1, 2017. Captured May 28, 2017 20:46.
  • Canon EOS 700D
  • f/18.0
  • 1/166s
  • ISO3200
  • 160mm