Distinguishing features
It is a shrub to medium sized tree with bark that is smooth throughout, white, green, purplish, grey or greenish-yellow.
Juvenile leaves are stalkless, opposite, stem-clasping, with scalloped edges, round or heart-shaped, to 10x 8 cm, greenish-grey, glaucous; stems square in cross section, shrubs and smaller trees mature and flower in the juvenile phase.
Adult leaves are stalked, lanceolate to broad-lanceolate, to 13 x 3.5 cm, concolorous, grey-green to glaucous.
Buds in axils of leaves, in 3's, stalkless or very shortly stalked, glaucous, to 1 x 0.6 cm; base cylindrical; operculum flattened and beaked.
Flowers are white and appear in Mid winter to early spring. (Wikipedia)
Size
- Size data has not been obtained.
Synonyms
Distribution
©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution
Distribution and habitat preferences
It is endemic to Tasmania.
It has restricted distribution in the south-east at intermediate altitudes such as the foothills of Mount Wellington, Snug Plains, Port Arthur and Moogara.
