Plant ID: Turpentine tree (Syncarpia glomulifera) скачать в хорошем качестве

Plant ID: Turpentine tree (Syncarpia glomulifera)

Genus: Syncarpia Species: glomulifera Family: MYRTACEAE Common name: Turpentine Plant type: Evergreen Origin: From the coasts to the lower tablelands of NSW and Queensland Habit/Form: Another one of my favourites. A marvellous woodsy-looking tree, quietly displays a distinguished stance, upright and reaching for the sky, can mingle with other trees and finds a slender room for itself or can grow into quite a display of ascending branches and dense conical crown. S. glomulifera on Sydney streets can be found stocky to medium with a decent-sized broad dome or can be found tall and steadily living among Eucalypts and Casuarinas. Can reach 25m around town but in natural habitat it can reach over 50m. Can have a Mallee habit In its natural habitat/forest-woodland, where multiple stems grow from a common root system/root crown (the lignotuber), creating a cluster or large stretches of multiple stem growth. Usually a single straight trunk tree with brown, grey-brown fibrous persistent bark, fissured and stringy/woven thready fibrous, deep furrows. Very vigorous and long lived, adaptable, tolerant, can handle 1st line salt and a variety of different soil types. Favours deep, rich, moist, well drained soil. Leaves: Bright green new growth aging to dull dark green, opposite or leaves can grow in pairs close together to form a 3-4 whorl, can be ovate, lanceolate/elliptic, recurved margin, 60-120mm x 30-45mm, with a yellow midrib. Leaves can be hairy on the underside and aromatic when crushed. S. glomulifera can be further classified into 2 subspecies of: those with fine hairs underneath the leaf and those without fine hairs (smooth) underneath. Flowers: A polystemonous cream white or pale yellow flower with 4 rounded petals, usually 7 of these flowers are found fused together to form a rounded head (compound flowerhead). Fruit: A distinctive fused cluster/compound of 5-7 woody grey capsules. The fused parts/edges can be a bit spiky or sharp.