Eucalyptus Guilfoylei
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''Eucalyptus guilfoylei'', commonly known as yellow tingle or dingul dingul, is a species of tall tree that is
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to Western Australia. The trunk is straight with fibrous, greyish brown bark and it has lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit.


Description

''Eucalyptus guilfoylei'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of . It has rough, short-fibred, crumbly, greyish brown bark and a trunk diameter of about . Young plants and
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regrowth have stems that are more or less square in cross-section and leaves that are egg-shaped, dark green above and paler on the lower surface, long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, dull green on the upper surface, paler below, long and wide on a
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long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven on branching peduncles in leaf
axil A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, fl ...
s and on the ends of branchlets. The peduncles are long and the
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long. Mature buds are cylindrical or narrow egg-shaped, with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. Flowering occurs between November and January and the flowers are white. The fruit are woody, globular, pear-shaped or barrel-shaped capsules long and wide with the valves near rim level. They contain flattened saucer shaped red-brown seeds. Although closely related to the other tingle trees, '' E. brevistylis'' and '' E. jacksonii'', the trunk of ''E. guilfoylei'' is not
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ed, the bark is persistent, the wood is yellow and the leaves are paler on the lower surface. All the tingles are able to reach 400 years of age.


Taxonomy and naming

The species was first described by the
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Joseph Maiden Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...
in 1911 in his article ''Notes on Western Australian eucalypts, including description of new species'' in the ''Journal of the Natural History and Science Society of Western Australia''. The
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material was collected by Andrew Murphy in 1905 near
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. The name honours
William Guilfoyle William Robert Guilfoyle (8 December 1840 – 25 June 1912) was an English landscape gardener and botanist in Victoria, Australia, acknowledged as the architect of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne and was responsible for the design of many p ...
, who once was the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne.


Distribution

Found on slopes and ridges in coastal areas of the Great Southern region where it grows in gravelly loam soils. Found between the
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and Frankland Rivers west of Albany, on slopes and ridges of hilly country. It occurs as scattered trees in forested areas associated with other large trees, such as ''
Eucalyptus diversicolor ''Eucalyptus diversicolor'', commonly known as karri, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tall tree with smooth light grey to cream-coloured, often mottled bar ...
'', ''
Corymbia calophylla ''Corymbia calophylla'', commonly known as marri, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a tree or Mallee (habit), mallee with rough bark on part or all of the trunk, ...
'' or '' Eucalyptus jacksonii''. The yellow tingle grows best in deep red loamy soils originating from
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and
dolerite Diabase (), also called dolerite () or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro. Diabase dikes and sills are typically shallow intrusive bodies and often exhibit fine-grain ...
but will grow in light loams from
granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...
and
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. The species was reported as occurring with several plant species, often as the understorey of the ''E. jacksonii'', which is distinguished by its larger size, more fibrous bark and the name red tingle tingle (a variation of a common name, as 'yellow tingle tingle', was also once in popular use for this species). Other associated trees include river banksia and ''
Agonis flexuosa ''Agonis flexuosa'', commonly known as peppermint, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. The Noongar peoples know the tree as wanil, wonnow, wonong or wannang. It is a t ...
''. The tree resembles jarrah but for its less rough bark and light brown wood.


Uses

The heartwood is hard and straight-grained with an oak-like yellow colour. The wood has a green density of about 1185 kg/m3 and an air-dried density about 990 kg/m3.


See also

*
List of Eucalyptus species The following is an alphabetical list of ''Eucalyptus'' species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at February 2019. Several species only occurring outside Australia, including ''Eucalyptus orophila, E. orophila'', ''Eucalyptus urophylla, ...


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15396054 Trees of Australia Trees of Mediterranean climate guilfoylei Myrtales of Australia Eucalypts of Western Australia Plants described in 1911 Taxa named by Joseph Maiden Endemic flora of Southwest Australia