
Broad-leaved Peppermint
Eucalyptus dives
Family Myrtaceae
Common Eucalypt
About
Found through Girraween National Park's tall open eucalypt forest on poor, dryish, stony soils, identifiable by its broader leaves than other peppermint gums.
How to spot it
Rough finely fibrous greyish trunk bark with smooth grey bark on thinner branches, broad lance-shaped leaves 70-150mm long, white flowers in clusters of eleven or more.
Found in
- Girraween National Park
Source: Wikipedia - Girraween National Park / Eucalyptus dives
Photo: Murray Fagg (CC BY 3.0 AU) via Wikimedia Commons