Scientific Name: Blakella citriodora

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  • Pronunciation:
    Blake-ella sit-ree-ah-DOOR-ah
  • Common Name:
    Spotted Gum
  • Derivation:
    was Corymbia citriodora
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    MYRTACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Cream, winter
  • Fruit:
    woody, warty fruits to 15mm
  • Vegetation Type:
    Dry Eucalypt Forest, common on ridges
  • Species List:
    Bush food, Bush medicine, Eucalypt Forest Trees
Cultural Notes

TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:

Timber: brown in colour, moderately durable. Main uses: General building purposes, flooring, lining and joinery. Railway sleepers, wharf and bridge construction, poles, piles, crossarms. Landscaping and retaining walls. Boat building, fencing, shingles, tool handles, fishing rods. Eucalyptus oil can be distilled from the leaves at some expense. Trees fast-growing. Bush medicine: Diarrhoea and dysentery - kino (gum) solution drunk. Bush food: Nectar sucked from flowers. Water extracted from roots. Bush medicine: Pad of chewed leaves often placed on wound to heal.; leaves and oil prescribed for everything.

Identification Notes

Pink-white bark is smooth and dimpled, peels in patches. Bbole generally clean and straight- mature trees have shapely but sparsely-foliaged crown.

Associated Fauna

Bird attracting