''Eucalyptus badjensis'', commonly known as the Big Badja gum, is a tree that is

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to south-eastern

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. It has hard, rough bark on the lower part of the trunk, smooth grey bark above, often hanging in strips on the upper branches, linear to narrow lance-shaped, often curved adult leaves, green to yellow buds in groups of three in leaf

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s, white flowers and conical or bell-shaped fruit. Eucalyptus badjensis buds

Description

''Eucalyptus badjensis'' is a tree that grows to a height of and has hard, rough, greyish brown bark near the base of the trunk and smooth grey, green to light brownish or grey bark on the branches and upper part of the trunk. The upper bark is often shed in ribbons. The leaves on young plants and

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regrowth are lance-shaped, long, wide and lack a petiole. The adult leaves are linear to narrow lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. They are the same dull green colour on both surfaces. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three in leaf

s on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on a

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up to long. The mature buds are oval, green to yellow, long and wide with a conical operculum. Flowering occurs in January and the flowers are white. The fruit is a conical or bell-shaped capsule long and wide on a pedicel up to long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Eucalyptus badjensis'' was first formally described in 1924 by Wilfred de Beuzeville and Marcus Welch "at an elevation of about 4,000 feet, three miles south of the Big Badja Mountain". The description was published in '' Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales''. The

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(''badjensis'') is a reference to the distribution of this eucalypt. The ending ''-ensis'' is a

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Distribution and habitat

Big Badja gum is found in wet forest, on hills and plateaus on the eastern side of the

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in New South Wales. It grows in soils that are relatively fertile and where the rainfall is high and occurs from Big Badja Hill to

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and Brown Mountain, west of Bega.A Field Guide to Eucalypts - Brooker & Kleinig volume 1, page 216

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q763060 badjensis Myrtales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Plants described in 1924