Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Eucalyptus kartzoffiana
Profile last updated:
30 Aug 2021
Description
Growing to 30 m high, the Araluen Gum has rough, pale grey, scaly bark for up to 4 m from the ground; above that the bark is smooth and grey or white and sheds in long ribbons. The juvenile leaves are opposite, oval, blue-green and stalkless. Adult leaves are alternate, long and slender (to 20 cm by 2 cm). They have a vein within a millimetre of the margin and a flattened stalk. Flowers are in groups of three, also on a flattened stalk. Buds and fruits are blue-green. The buds are cylindrical with a conical cap; fruits are bell-shaped, to 7 mm long and wide.
Distribution
Araluen Gum is found in the Araluen, Bendethera and Majors Creek area, south of Braidwood.
Habitat and ecology
- Grows near rivers, in grassy or shrubby woodland or in wet sclerophyll forest on moderately fertile sandy soil on granite.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- At risk from catastrophic events because of small number of extant populations and low number of plants.
- Threatened by broad-scale clearing and clearing of isolated trees.
- Some populations threatened by roadwork and future widening.
- Increased temperatures due to climate change changing habitat for the species.
- Destruction of habitat by 4WD and other recreational users, collection of Firewood
- Browsing and destruction of saplings by deer prevents recruitment and causes soil erosion.
- Competition by vines and scramblers, increase risk of fungal infection and windthrow. Grassy weeds an issue on open parts of the floodplain and blackberries.
- Browsing of seedlings, ringbark adult trees and saplings.
- On private property - a range of threats acting on the species
Recovery strategies
Priority actions are the specific, practical things that must be done to recover a threatened species, population or ecological
community. The Office of Environment and Heritage has identified
6 priority actions
to help recover the Araluen Gum in New South Wales.
Activities to assist this species
- Work with local government body to ensure protection of trees in any future roadworks.
- Examine ways to increase regeneration - for instance by fencing out stock - as well as protecting mature trees.
Information sources
- Brooker, M. and Kleinig, D.A. (1999) Field guide to eucalypts, Volume 1: South-eastern Australia. 2nd edn. Blooming Books, Hawthorn.
- Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002) Flora of New South Wales. Volume 2, Revised Edition. UNSW, Sydney.
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