Distinguishing features
It typically grows to a height of 15 m and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, powdery white to greyish bark that is shed in thin scales, sometimes with a short stocking of rough bark near the base of the trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth dull green, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are 150–250 mm long and 70–120 mm wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped, 80–207 mm long and 13–55 mm wide on a petiole 5–26 mm long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on a branched peduncle 1–9 mm long, each branch with three or seven buds, the individual buds on pedicels 2–11 mm long. Mature buds are pear-shaped, 5–8 mm long and 4–6 mm wide with a rounded, sometimes pointed operculum. Flowering occurs from September to October and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a woody cylindrical to barrel-shaped capsule 9–12 mm long and 6–10 mm wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit. (Wikipedia)
Size
- Up to 1500 cm (Height)
