Eucalyptus pulverulenta Sims
Silver-leaved Mountain Gum, Silverleaf Mountain Gum, Silverleaf mountain gum, ironbark
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Summary
Eucalyptus pulverulenta, commonly known as silver-leaved mountain gum, is a species of straggly tree or mallee that is endemic to southern New South Wales. It has smooth bark, egg-shaped, heart-shaped or round, sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and cup-shaped to cylindrical fruit.
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About the genus · Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of Eucalyptus are trees, often mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including Corymbia and Angophora, they are commonly known as eucalypts or "gum trees". More on Wikipedia ›
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At a glance
Also known as Eucalyptus cordata Lodd.; Eucalyptus pulverulenta var. ovatifolia Denham; Eucalyptus pulverulenta var. ovatifolia Denham; Eucalyptus pulverulenta var. ovatifolia Denham; Eucalyptus pulverulenta var. ovatifolia Denham and 1 more.
Cultivation
Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (December to February and April to August in the northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (491 mm of 680 mm) takes 8 months, October to February and June to August. Mean temperature moves 13.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: December to February and April to August.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 680 mm a year, wettest November at 72 mm, driest April at 45 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
680 mm a year at the habitat, 491 mm of it October to February and June to August. Wettest month November at 72 mm, driest April at 45 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 536 mm to 898 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 45 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 45 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 14, the highest 90th-percentile month 48).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor -1.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -1.8 °C, the absolute minimum -5.1 °C, about 20 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.9 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 1.7 °C in July (across the envelope cells 0.6 °C to 3.4 °C), warmest day 25.1 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -1.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 63% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 25 / 24–27 | 24 / 23–26 | 22 / 20–23 | 18 / 17–19 | 14 / 13–16 | 10 / 9–12 | 9 / 9–11 | 11 / 10–13 | 15 / 14–17 | 18 / 17–20 | 21 / 20–22 | 23 / 22–25 |
| Night °C | 14 / 12–15 | 14 / 12–15 | 11 / 10–13 | 8 / 7–10 | 5 / 4–7 | 3 / 2–5 | 2 / 1–3 | 2 / 1–4 | 5 / 3–6 | 7 / 6–9 | 10 / 8–12 | 12 / 10–14 |
| Rain mm | 61 / 50–93 | 66 / 51–103 | 49 / 40–77 | 45 / 37–80 | 46 / 36–63 | 55 / 44–64 | 53 / 40–66 | 53 / 33–76 | 49 / 39–61 | 61 / 44–78 | 72 / 60–88 | 70 / 57–86 |
| DLI | 45 / 42–47 | 39 / 36–41 | 33 / 31–35 | 25 / 24–26 | 18 / 17–19 | 15 / 14–16 | 17 / 16–18 | 23 / 21–24 | 31 / 30–32 | 38 / 37–39 | 42 / 40–44 | 45 / 43–48 |
| RH % | 57 / 54–59 | 59 / 56–62 | 59 / 57–61 | 60 / 58–61 | 62 / 61–63 | 63 / 62–65 | 62 / 61–64 | 60 / 59–62 | 58 / 57–59 | 56 / 55–58 | 57 / 56–58 | 57 / 54–58 |
Each figure is the median across the 73 grid cells holding the 236 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2471:6591 (-33.575, 149.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -5.1 °C, 1st-percentile night -1.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.9 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 73 distinct grid cells holding the 236 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2471:6591 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -33.50_149.375, lapse-corrected -5 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 829 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Shelomi Doyle, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); no rights reserved · CC0 (3); (c) Justin Paulin, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Eucalyptus pulverulenta, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
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Eucalyptus caesia Silver Princess
Eucalyptus camaldulensis Myrtaceae
Eucalyptus cinerea Argyle Apple
Eucalyptus cladocalyx Sugargum
Eucalyptus conferruminata Bald Island Marlock
Eucalyptus deglupta Indonesian Gum
Eucalyptus globulus Bluegumtree
Eucalyptus grandis Blue Gum
Eucalyptus leucoxylon Blue Gum
Eucalyptus polyanthemos Red Box
Eucalyptus robusta Swamp Mahogany Gum
Eucalyptus sideroxylon Mugga Ironbark History & registers
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