Flora of New Zealand Series

Large tree; bark rough and flaky near base, smooth and patterned or blotched bluish grey above. Juvenile lvs opposite at first; petiole to 2.5 cm long; lamina broad-ovate; base broad-cuneate. Adult lvs with petiole to 3 cm long; lamina to c. 30 × 2.5 cm, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, concolorous, coriaceous, glossy, with distinct intramarginal vein and lateral veins diverging at an angle of c. 45° to midrib; base cuneate, symmetric; apex long-subulate-acuminate. Umbels axillary, of 7-9 fls; peduncles 0.7-1.8 cm long, almost terete; pedicels 3-9 mm long. Buds 0.8-1.2 cm long, narrowly conic or horn-shaped, operculum much > hypanthium; becoming whitish just before dehiscence. Stamens white; anthers oblong. Fr. pedicellate, 5-6 × 6.5-7.5 mm, hemispheric; valves 3-4, exserted; disc c. 2.5 mm wide, convex, strongly exserted.

N.: N. Auckland, the Onepoto Basin (Auckland), and Hawke's Bay.

E. Australia 1957

Regenerating in and around plantations.

FL Jul-Oct.

E. tereticornis is cultivated in lowland areas, especially in Hawke's Bay and northwards. The long, conic, bud operculum, combined with the prominently exserted capsule valves, are characteristic of this sp. In Australia it is known as forest red gum.