阔叶桉 kuo ye an

Trees, medium sized. Bark whitish to brownish, smooth, exfoliating. Branchlets terete. Young leaves opposite; leaf blade rounded, cordate, or broadly lanceolate, ca. 30 × 28 cm, leathery. Mature leaves with a slightly flattened 2-3 cm petiole; leaf blade rounded to broadly ovate, 7-13 × 6-11 cm, secondary veins few and 10-15 apart, intramarginal veins 1-1.5 mm from margin, base broad but abruptly decurrent, apex obtuse. Inflorescences axillary, simple, umbels 3-7-flowered; peduncle 5-6 mm, terete or compressed. Flower buds obovoid, 6-8 × ca. 5 mm. Hypanthium obconic, 4-5 mm, 2-ridged; stipe 0-3 mm; calyptra semiglobose, shorter than or as long as hypanthium, apex rounded. Capsule semiglobose to awl-shaped, 5-6 × 7-9 mm; disk moderately broad; valves 3 or 4, exserted from hypanthium. Fl. Oct-Nov.

Cultivated in Guangdong (Guangzhou) [native to NE Australia].