![]() Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. ![]() Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. This eucalypt produces one of the hardest and strongest timbers in the world and was formerly used for wheel spokes and the shafts of horse-drawn vehicles but most trees of commercial value were logged a long time ago. Ferdinand von Mueller sent seed of the species to Lucknow, where the sapling grew to a height of eight to ten feet within a year and, unlike eucalypts tested, tolerated tropical rain his 1879 report also noted the successful introduction to Melbourne. cornuta has also been introduced to California. Well known as a cultivated tree throughout Australia, E. While it may obtain great height in its natural habitat, the species is successfully planted as a medium or small tree for shade and windbreaks, and as street trees or for highway verges. It will tolerate drought, moderate frost, a range of soils and in coastal areas. The tree is sold commercially for use as an ornamental, shade or wildlife habitat. In favourable habitat a single trunk may attain great height and it is able to compete in tall forests of jarrah ( Eucalyptus marginata) and marri ( Corymbia calophylla) or any other species except the karri giants in Eucalyptus diversicolor forest. decipiens, which occurs to the north and east. The form is similar to the mallee habit of smaller eucalypts in drier regions and its habit is comparable to limestone marlock, E. Vigorous early growth and the potential in its lignotuber allow it to generate new stems after fire or as new opportunities emerge in the canopy or surroundings. The species is found in a large mallee form at coastal areas, or as tall stands in areas of high rainfall and fertile soil of valleys, especially the inland region from Manjimup to the Porongurups. In more arid regions near Esperance, it is often at granite outcrops, on deeper and wetter soil at cavities on the rock or the apron beneath the rockface. The species often occurs in isolated stands. Yate occurs in an area southeast of Busselton to Cape Arid and the islands of the Recherche Archipelago. Yate is well established as a common name for this widely grown tree, and several other western species of eucalypt are so named: bushy yate E. The names in the Nyungar language of southwest Australia are mo, yandil, yeit or yate. The specific epithet ( cornuta) is a Latin word meaning "horned" or "bearing horns", referring to the operculum of the buds. The description was published in his book Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse. Labillardière collected the type specimen from granite outcrops on Observatory Island west of Esperance on 13 December 1792 during the Bruni d'Entrecasteaux expedition. Taxonomy and naming Įucalyptus cornuta was first formally described in 1800 by Jacques Labillardière. The fruit is a woody cylindrical to cup-shaped capsule 5–12 mm (0.20–0.47 in) long and 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) wide with the seeds released through slits between the valves. Flowering occurs between January and May or from July to November and the flowers are yellowish green. Mature buds are elongated, 23–42 mm (0.91–1.65 in) long and 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) wide with a horn-shaped operculum between four and seven times as long as the floral cup. The flower buds are arranged in groups of eleven or more on a rounded to flattened, unbranched peduncle 12–32 mm (0.47–1.26 in) long, the individual buds usually sessile. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same glossy green on both sides, usually lance-shaped, mostly 60–135 mm (2.4–5.3 in) long and 10–33 mm (0.39–1.30 in) wide on a petiole 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) long. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped to more or less round leaves 40–70 mm (1.6–2.8 in) long, 20–70 mm (0.79–2.76 in) wide and paler on the lower surface. It has rough, fibrous, brown to almost black bark on all or part of its trunk, smooth greyish bark above. New stems may fork out from the trunk or the lignotuber or multiple main stems may replace a single trunk in older specimens. ![]() flower buds fruit trunk bark Description Įucalyptus cornuta is a tree that typically grows to a height of 25 m (82 ft) with a crown 8–12 m (26–39 ft) wide, sometimes a mallee to 10 m (33 ft), and forms a lignotuber. It is widely cultivated and produces one of the hardest and strongest timbers in the world. It has rough, fibrous bark on all or most of its trunk, smooth bark above, mostly lance-shaped adult leaves, elongated flower buds in groups of eleven or more, yellowish flowers and cylindrical to cup-shaped fruit. ![]() Eucalyptus cornuta, commonly known as yate, is a tree species, sometimes a mallee and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia.
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