About Eucalyptus dives Schauer
Eucalyptus dives Schauer, commonly known as broad-leaved peppermint, is a tree species that grows up to 20 meters (66 feet) tall and forms a lignotuber. Trunks and larger branches have rough, finely fibrous, greyish bark, while thinner branches have smooth grey bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth produce sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs, that range from egg-shaped to heart-shaped or curved, and measure 60–140 mm (2.4–5.5 in) long and 20–70 mm (0.79–2.76 in) wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, are lance-shaped to curved, are the same slightly glossy or dull green on both sides, and measure 70–150 mm (2.8–5.9 in) long and 14–42 mm (0.55–1.65 in) wide, growing on a 5–33 mm (0.2–1 in) long petiole. Flower buds are typically arranged in groups of eleven or more in leaf axils, on an unbranched peduncle 3–13 mm (0.1–0.5 in) long, with individual buds growing on a 2–7 mm (0.08–0.3 in) long pedicel. Mature buds are oval to club-shaped, 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) wide, with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between September and January, and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody capsule shaped like a cup, hemisphere, or cone, that is 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) long and 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) wide. The fruit is either sessile or grows on a pedicel up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long, with valves located near the rim of the capsule. This species usually grows in poor, dry soils in open forest and woodland, and most often occurs in poor, shallow, stony soils at higher elevations. It is distributed in New South Wales south from Niangala, and in south-eastern Victoria.
