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PLANT FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Rough-leaved Bloodwood
Other Names
Desert Bloodwood
Description
The Rough-leaved Bloodwood is a tree mostly to 6 m, sometimes to 9 m, straggly. Bark rough, flaky or tessellated, grey throughout. Juvenile leaves similar to, but smaller than leaves on mature trees. Leaves on mature trees opposite, sessile, lanceolate to broadly ovate, cordate, 5-10 cm long, 2.5-6 cm wide, sometimes scabrous, grey-green; lateral veins at 55° -75° , curved towards margin. Umbels 3-7-flowered; peduncle 12-25 mm long, setose; pedicels 4-8 mm long, setose. Buds ovoid to pyriform; operculum hemispherical-conical, 5-7 mm long, 7-8 mm wide; hypanthium truncate-ovoid, 9-11 mm long, 7-8 mm wide. Fruits pedicellate, ovoid to suburceolate, 15-25 mm long and wide, woody, setose when young, becoming smooth. Seeds winged at one end, yellow-brown.
Habitat
Grows on rocky hills, sand plains and sometimes on dunes.
Distribution
Distinguished by the opposite, sessile leaves on mature trees, and by the red or red-brown bristles or hairs on the younger leaves, the conflorescence and at least the immature fruits.
Growth Characteristics
Height: 5m - 12m
Spread: 3m - 6m
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Corymbia | | Species: | setosa | | Common Name: | Rough-leaved Bloodwood |
Relatives in same Genus
Corymbia aparrerinja
Corymbia citriodora
Corymbia gummifera
Corymbia intermedia
Corymbia maculata
Corymbia ptychocarpa
Corymbia terminalis
Corymbia tessellaris
Corymbia torelliana
Corymbia 'Summer Red'
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