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| Common names: | Blood leaf gum (English) Cadaga (English) Cadaghi (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Cultivated and rarely naturalised |
| Description: |
Trunk, or at least the upper major branches, grey-green, smooth. Juvenile leaves petiolate, peltate: lamina 9-17 × 6-8 cm, broadly ovate, bristly-hairy, the hairs red on very young leaves; base shallowly cordate; apex acute. Adult leaves lanceolate, but rarely seen as juvenile and intermediate leaves predominate. Inflorescences compound. Umbels 3-7-flowered. Peduncles terete. Flowers white or cream. Fruits rounded or urn-shaped, 3-locular. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | torelliana: after Count Luigi de Torelli, 1810-1887, member of the Italian senate, who promoted the use of eucalypts to dry up the malarial Pontine Marshes near Rome. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Queensland, Australia. |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
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