Eucalyptus parramattensis

Eucalyptus parramattensis is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, mottled grey, brown and yellow bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green to bluish leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped to lance-shaped, the same shade of glossy green on both sides, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a conical operculum. Flowering occurs from November to December and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical capsule long and wide, with the valves protruding above the rim. ==Taxonomy==

Eucalyptus parramattensis was first formally described in 1913 by Edwin Cuthbert Hall in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from material collected by Richard Thomas Baker. Two subspecies and one variety are accepted by the Australian Plant Census: • Eucalyptus parramattensis subsp. '' L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell is usually a poorly-formed tree with larger leaves, buds and fruit than subspecies parramattensis''; has a conical operculum; has a rounded operculum. ==Distribution and habitat==

Parramatta red gum grows in woodland, on flat and gently sloping country, often in wet sites on sandy soils. Subspecies parramattensis is found to the north-west of Sydney, subspecies ' in the lower Hunter River and var. ' occurs from near Parramatta to the foothills of the Blue Mountains. ==References==