Download Water gum (Tristaniopsis laurina)

Water gum (Tristaniopsis laurina)
The Water Gum (Tristaniopsis laurina) is an attractive and compact evergreen shade tree in
cultivation, it has smooth bark when young which becomes scaly as the tree matures.
The leaves are 5-12 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, glossy dark green above with a paler under-side,
and are alternately placed along the stems.
The flowers are cream to orange-yellow in colour and produced in short clusters in January
and early February. The individual flowers are about 10 mm in diameter with five small,
rounded petals and stamens united in five groups. The seed capsules are woody, globular in
shape and 6-8 mm in diameter.
Tristaniopsis laurina is recommended by ETSA as an ideal street tree under powerlines with
an expected mature height of more than 3 metres but not more than 6 metres.