Can you identify this sighting?
Identification history
| Alphitonia excelsa | 17 Apr 2025 | MazzV |
Identify this sighting
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
User's notes
I understand this to be a Red Ash, (Alphitonia excelsa). This tree grows atop a creek bank, and is at least 40 years old. Photo 1 shows the canopy, upper trunk, & main branches. The leaves are thin but leathery, and are a dark green on top (photo 3), with a silver-white underside (photo 4). As with this one, I’ve seen many trees with their trunks, and branches being a mix of smooth & rough (predominantly) white, whereas patches of darker bark are mostly rough, having vertical fissures of generally narrow, but varying widths. The smoother bark is also mostly on younger growth. The trunk of this specimen has some narrower, almost bands, of light grey bark, roughly distributed along its length (photo 2). Others I’ve seen around seem to be more splotchy and random in the distribution of darker bark. The trunks and the branches are often host to a range of lichens and associated life forms.
Be the first to comment
Sighting information
- 99 Abundance
- MazzV Recorded by
-
Collections
MazzV NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Latest Other Trees Plants
Additional information
- 1-2 mm from memory Flower dimension
- Cheese Trees, Red Cedar, Tulipwood Description
- 20 cm each trunk, (bifurcated) Tree diameter (m)
- Greater than 5 metres Plant height
- Alive / healthy Plant health
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes
