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ACCESSION NO: KFRIw 698
- Scientific Name: Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm.
- Family: Myrtaceae
- Trade Name: Mysore gum
- Common Name: Forest red gum, Mysore gum, Eucalypts (India), Queensland blue gum (Australia)
- പൊതുവായ പേരുകള്: മൈസൂർഗം
- Native: New Guinea to East & South East Australia
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- Collected by: P. K. Thulasidas & K. M. Bhat
- General Characteristics: Trees, to 25 m high, bark white, smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate, elliptic, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. Flowers are bisexual and white. Fruit a capsule.
- Wood Anatomy: Growth rings are Indistinct. Vessels diffuse- porous, Medium, moderately numerous, mostly solitary; rarely in radial or oblique chains; tyloses abundant; kino-like deposits sparse to moderately abundant. The rays are Fine and closely spaced.
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