Eucalyptus moluccana

taxobox
name = Grey box, Gum-topped box

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image_caption = "Eucalyptus moluccana", Melbourne
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Myrtales
familia = Myrtaceae
genus = "Eucalyptus"
species = "E. moluccana"
binomial = "Eucalyptus moluccana"
binomial_authority = |

"Eucalyptus moluccana", commonly known as the Grey Box or "Gum-topped box", is a medium sized to occasionally tall tree with rough, persistent bark on the lower trunk, shedding above to leave a smooth whitish or light grey, sometimes shiny surface.

The adult leaves are stalked, broad lanceolate to lanceolate, to 14 x 3.5 cm, glossy, green, with numerous oil glands.

White flowers appear in mid summer to mid autmmn.

Distribution is widespread on the coastal plains and ranges northwards from Jervis Bay in New South Wales to the area between Rockhampton and Mackay in Queensland, then with a substantial gap to the northern occurrences in the ranges from west of Paluma to the southern part of the Atherton Tableland; also two small disjunct patches east of Clermont near Eungella Dam. [Brooker, M.I.H. & Kleinig, D.A. "Field Guide to Eucalyptus", Bloomings, Melbourne 2001]

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