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Eucalyptus elata, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Murray Fagg, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY
#1347 most planted

Eucalyptus elata

River peppermint · also River white gum

56
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
3.8 in
median trunk (10 cm, 56 measured)

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Eucalyptus elata, commonly known as the river peppermint or river white gum, is a medium to tall tree endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, compacted bark on the lower trunk, smooth bark above, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, and produces white flowers and hemispherical or shortened spherical fruit.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Melbourne · Australia
    56—3.8 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Southeast Australia temperate forests

Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands

  • Southeast Australia temperate savanna

Other Eucalyptus in the catalogue

57 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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