Corymbia leichhardtii

Description

Corymbia leichhardtii, commonly known as Leichhardt's rustyjacket, rusty jacket or yellow jacket,is a bloodwood native to Queensland The tree typically grows to a height of 18 metres (59 ft) and has tessellated, thick, soft bark that is pale brown to yellow-brown or orange bark in colour and persists over the length of the tree. The adult leaves are dull, grey-green, thin, concolorous and lanceolate in shape. The tree blooms between January and Marchand produces a terminal compound conflorescence with regular seven flowered umbellasters that have terete pedicels and penduncles. C. leichhardtii has a range stretching from Mareeba in North Queensland south to Salvator Rosa National Park in Central Queensland. It is found in tropical and subtropical sclerophyll woodlands and grows in sandy soils over sandstone. It was first described by the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey in 1906 in the Journal of Queensland Agriculture as Eucalyptus leichhardtii.