Eucalyptus laevopinea, commonly known as the silver top stringybark,[1] is a tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy greyish bark on the trunk and larger branches, glossy green, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and hemispherical or shortened spherical fruit.
Eucalyptus laevopinea is a tree that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, thick, stringy, greyish bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth whitish bark above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves that are paler on the lower surface, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the same shade of glossy green on both sides, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petioleШаблон:Cvt long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncleШаблон:Cvt long, the individual buds on pedicelsШаблон:Cvt long. Mature buds are oval, Шаблон:Cvt long and about Шаблон:Cvt wide with a rounded, conical or beaked operculum. Flowering occurs between January and April or between July and September and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody hemispherical or shortened spherical capsuleШаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with the valves near rim level or slightly protruding.[1][2][3][4]
The silver top stringybark occurs between the Rylstone district in New South Wales to the Warwick and Stanthorpe districts in southern Queensland. It grows in hilly areas of the tablelands in open forest.[2][3]
