Eucalyptus creta (Eucalyptus creta)
Description
Eucalyptus creta, commonly known as the large-fruited gimlet, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia. The tree typically grows to a height of 3 to 15 metres (10 to 49 ft) with smooth grey-white bark. Adult leaves are disjunct, dull, glaucous, coriaceous and concolorous. The leaf blade has a lanceolate or broad lanceolate shape that is basally tapered. It blooms in May producing yellow-cream flowers. The simple axillary conflorescence are made up of seven flowered umbellasters with terete peduncles. The fruit that follow are hemispherical with a depressed disc containing red seeds. The species has a limited range and is found along the south coast in the Goldfields-Esperance region, in the Mallee and Esperance plains IBRA regions on calcareous plains in sandy loam or clay.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Myrtales
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Family: Myrtaceae
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Genus: Eucalyptus
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