Scientific Name: Eucalyptus citriodora (Corymbia citriodora)

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  • Pronunciation:
    you-cal-LIPT-us sit-ree-ah-DOOR-ah
  • Common Name:
    Spotted Gum Lemon scented gum
  • Derivation:
    Eucalyptus: Gr. eu - well, kalyptos - covered (refers to bud cap) citriodora: L.citron - lemon, odorus - having a smell (refers to leaves)
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    MYRTACEAE
  • Flowers:
    White
  • Fruit:
    Capsule with valves deeply enclosed Fruit woody scaly or warty oboid barrel-shaped to slightly urceolate disc dspressed valves 3 deeply enclosed
  • Vegetation Type:
    Dry Eucalypt Forest (e.g. Cooroy-Belli Creek Road)
  • Species List:
    Bush food, Bush medicine, Eucalypt Forest Trees, - Cooroy poor well-drained gravelly soils. Ridges
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

Trunk smooth dimpled Bark smooth and deciduous throughout whitish with bluish blotched dimpled with powdery surface bole generally clean and straight mature trees have shapely but sparsely-foliaged crown. Found on poor well-drained gravelly podzolic soils.

Associated Fauna

Bird attracting