Cadagi

Corymbia torelliana

Alternative Name(s): Eucalyptus torelliana, Cadagahi

Family: Myrtaceae.

Form: Tree

Origin: Native of rainforest and rainforest margins in northern Queensland.

Flowers/Seedhead: With buds 8–9 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Flowers spring.

Description: Tree to 30 m high. Leaves with lateral veins at wide angle to midvein and with vein near leaf margin, small visible glands present. Fruit 8–10 mm long and wide. Seeds red-brown, small.

Distinguishing features: Distinguished by rough grey to black fibrous bark on the lower trunk and smooth and green above; juvenile leaves ovate, alternate, surfaces of different colour, attached by a leaf stalk that joins the leaf away from the margin (peltate), leaf veins and leaf stalk hairy; older leaves alternate, ovate to

Dispersal: lanceolate, 9–16 cm long, 1.5–6.5 cm wide, surfaces of slightly different colour, on stalk 0.5–2 cm long, inflorescence consisting of 3 or 7 flowers in an umbel; buds ovoid; cap (operculum) of buds a half-sphere that is slightly pointed; buds and fruit on a stalk 5–20 mm long; fruit ovoid and with 3 valves well below rim of the fruit; stamens numerous, white to cream.

Confused With: Spread by seed, some moved by stingless native bees.