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Paddock Plants Modified 11 October 2010 COMMON NAME BLAKELY’S RED GUM SCIENTIFIC NAME Eucalyptus blakelyi FAMILY MYRTACEAE CATEGORY NATIVE TREE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: • Tree growing 10–24 m with leaves equally dull green or grey-green on both sides • Bark mostly smooth, pale, shedding in flakes with grey, creamy-yellow and pink mottles • Buds in clusters of 5–11; caps elongated and conical; flowers white, very rarely pink, occurring from August to December • Seed capsules 5–8 mm across with protruding valves or teeth WHERE IT GROWS & WHY: • Found from river plains to granite hillsides, but mainly on wetter or lower slopes • Favours moderately fertile soils on gently undulating sedimentary terrain MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE: • Prone to leaf damage by psyllids or ‘lerps’ particularly when understorey shrubs and leaf-gleaning birds are absent • Valuable wildlife habitat, especially for small birds such as pardalotes and thornbills which feed on leaf ‘lerps’; useful honey tree • Useful for gully erosion control behind more fibrous-rooted understorey plants SIMILAR PLANTS: • River Red Gum (E. camaldulensis) has pinched points on bud caps and grows close to permanent watercourses • Tumbledown Red Gum (E. dealbata) and Dwyer’s Mallee Gum (E. dwyeri) tend to be smaller, more poorly-formed trees, growing on harsher sites, higher in the landscape ` Tree habit, flower buds (note conical points), seed capsules, bark: L McMahon Issued subject to the copyright and disclaimer statements at www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/legal