Black Box

Black Box photos

Family: Myrtle (Myrtaceae)

Scientific Name:

Eucalyptus largiflorens

Black Box
Photograph courtesy of Viridans Biological Databases (external link)

Status:

Native to South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria

Other Common Names:

Swamp Box, Flooded Box, River Box, Cooburn, Ironbark, Slaty Gum, Murray Box, River Black Box

Plant Description:

Medium sized tree, 10 m or sometimes to 20 m high, with a large spreading crown and drooping branches. Bark persistent throughout except on the smallest branches, hard, dark, rough and somewhat furrowed. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, 6 – 12 cm long, 1.5 – 2.7 cm wide, somewhat thick, dull green or grey, stalked.

Flowers off white, borne in clusters of 3 – 7, each cluster at the end of a slender common stalk 5 – 8 mm long and part of a large terminal or axillary panicle. Buds 5 mm long, 3 – 4 mm wide, the cap hemispherical, shorter than the base. Fruit hemispherical, about 5 mm diameter, on a very short stalk, the valves enclosed. Flowering spring – summer.

Habitat:

Heavy clay soils of periodically flooded alluvial plains and along dry lake margins. Occurring in monospecific stands or in association with River Red-gum. Also in depressions and drainage lines in practically all communities. Is moderately tolerant of salinity and waterlogging.

Region	Salinity Class	Waterlogging Class
Mallee, Loddon Murray, Central and Northern, Wimmera	S0, S1, S2	W1, W2

Black Box Photos

Black Box - tree Photo: A J Brown	Black Box - normal white flowers Photo: A J Brown
Black Box - buds Photo: A J Brown	Black Box - mature fruit Photo: A J Brown
Black Box - rare pink flowers Photo: A J Brown	Black Box - old and young leaves Photo: A J Brown

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