Эвкалипт Далримпла: Сипаттамасы мен ерекшеліктері

Species of plant

Eucalyptus dalrympleana, commonly known as mountain gum, mountain white gum, white gum and broad leaved ribbon gum, is a species of tree that is endemic to southeastern Australia. It has smooth bark, lance shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, white flowers and cup shaped, bell shaped or hemispherical fruit.

Eucalyptus dalrympleana is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth white to yellowish bark, sometimes with a short stocking of rough bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves arranged in opposite pairs and are egg shaped or heart shaped to more or less round, long and wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, lance shaped to curved, the same colour on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three or seven in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the individual buds sessile or on a pedicel up to long. Mature buds are oval, green to yellow, long and wide with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering mainly occurs between March and June and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody cup shaped, bell shaped or hemispherical capsule long and wide.

Eucalyptus dalrympleana was first formally described in 1920 by Joseph Maiden from a specimen collected by Wilfred de Beuzeville near Yarrangobilly. The description was published in Maiden's book, The Forest Flora of New South Wales. The specific epithet (dalrympleana) honours the forester, Richard Dalrymple Hay. has flower buds arranged in groups of three; has flower buds and flowers in groups of seven.

In cultivation in the UK, E. dalrympleana is fully hardy down to 15 °C (5 °F) but prefers some shelter. It grows best in full sun. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.