Buffalo Sallee
Eucalyptus mitchelliana
Family Myrtaceae
About
Eucalyptus mitchelliana, commonly known as Buffalo sallee, Mt Buffalo sallee or Mount Buffalo gum, is a species of small tree or mallee that is endemic to part of the Mount Buffalo plateau in Victoria, Australia. It has smooth bark, linear to lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in clusters of between seven and eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped to more or less spherical fruit.
How to spot it
Eucalyptus mitchelliana is a tree or mallee that typically grows to a height of 15 m (49 ft) and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, grey to light grey or sometimes green bark, shedding in patches or strips to give the bark a mottled appearance. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves arranged that are in opposite pairs and lance-shaped to curved, 65–115 mm (2.6–4.5 in) long and 9–20 mm (0.35–0.79 in) wide tapering to a very short petiole. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same glo
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Mount Buffalo National Park — Gippsland & Alpine Victoria hikes