E. mannifera (mottled gum/ brittle gum)

philinsydney

I saw this tree planted in my suburb and though it looked like a brittle gum, and the 7-cluster buds and 3-valve exserted fruit bear this out.
The size of the fruit 5mm across suggests mannifera subsp maculosa, but the obconical as opposed to hemispherical shape suggests ssp gullickii.

philinsydney

The tree in question

azrael

Philinsydney...do you use Flora of the Sydney Region (Beadle, rev. Carolin & Tindale) to ident the Eucalypts.... OR some other.... Costermans maybe...or PlantNET.
Just interested...you always seem to be right on the mark...

philinsydney

In this case I used Plants of the Sydney Region (Alan Fairley/Phillip Moore)
I also looked at Field Guide to Eucalypts by Brooker & Kleinig, which is supposed to be the Bible, and was disappointed at the lack of info within. ssp mannifera and ssp maculosa are treated as one, without reference to the different sized fruits, and ssp gullickii is mentioned only as having different juvenile leaves, not different shaped fruit.

philinsydney

This brittle gum is in Canberra; it was in its colourful summer bark.