Eucalyptus wimmerensis
RuleMallee differing from E. viridis in the mostly smooth bark, larger grey to blue-green juvenile leaves (to 1.8 cm wide) that are subsessile to shortly petoleate, larger olive-green to blue-green adult leaves (to 2 cm wide), larger buds and larger, slightly angled fruit (to 0.7 cm long and diam.). Flowers summer to late autumn.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GGr. Also SA. Scattered in the Dimboola, Nhill, Kaniva area (including the Little Desert) south to around Mt Arapiles.
5 subspecies recorded in Victoria.
As with some other box species, Eucalyptus wimmerensis occurs in agricultural lands that have been much modified by clearing. Regrowth in these areas can be notoriously difficult to relate to the natural state, and some stands of E. wimmerensis appear to include hybrids, even with the distantly related mallees of the Eucalyptus dumosa group (see E. ×macmahonii).
Brooker, M.I.H.; Slee, A.V. (1996). Eucalyptus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 946–1009. Inkata Press, Melbourne.