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Family Myrtaceae Scientific Name Corymbia intermedia (R.T.Baker) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson Hill, K.D. & Johnson, L.A.S. (1995) Telopea 6: 247. Flowers. CC-BY J.L. Dowe Common name Pink Bloodwood; Red Bloodwood; Bloodwood Stem Stem clothed in a 'bloodwood' bark which extends to the branches. (A 'bloodwood' bark is flaky and plate-like but each individual flake is shortly fibrous.) Leaves Oil dots visible with a lens if not visible to the naked eye. Leaf blades about 8-15 x 1.5-3 cm, with 50 or more lateral veins on either side of the slightly raised midrib. Leaves, flowers and buds. Copyright CSIRO Flowers Individual flowers pedicellate. Operculum conical or broadly conical, about 5-7 mm diam., equal to or shorter than the calyx tube (hypanthium). Peduncles +/- square in transverse section. Outer and inner operculum shed together as one unit. Fruit Fruits urceolate, hard and woody, about 15-17 x 11-13 mm. Valves 3-4, deeply included. Seeds with a wing at one end. Seedlings Fruit. CC-BY J.L.Dowe Cotyledons much wider than long. Oil dots difficult to see with a lens, almost confined to the margins. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade ovate, apex apiculate, base obtuse with a few bristle-like hairs on the upper surface along the midrib; oil dots sparse and difficult to see with a lens; midrib on the underside of the leaf blade, petiole and stem clothed in bristle-like reddish brown hairs. Lignotuber present. Seed germination time 6 to 14 days. Distribution and Ecology Endemic to Australia, occurs in NEQ, CEQ and southwards to north-eastern New South Wales. Altitudinal range in NEQ from sea level to 1100 m. Grows in open forest, dry and wet sclerophyll forest and on rain forest margins. Scale bar 10mm. Copyright CSIRO Natural History & Notes Food plant for the larval stages of the Dull Oakblue Butterfly. Common & Waterhouse (1981). Produces a durable timber suitable for construction work. Wood specific gravity 1.01. Cause et al. (1989). Tree X Synonyms 10th leaf stage. Copyright CSIRO Eucalyptus intermedia R.T.Baker, Proc. Linnean Society New South Wales 25: 674(1901), Type: Ballina (W. Bauerlen); Richmond and Clarence Rivers (Rev. Dr. Woolls); Barneys Wharf, Cambewarra (W. Bauerlen, P. Macpherson). RFK Code 396 CC-BY Australian Tropical Herbarium unless otherwise indicated in the images.