Eucalyptus coccifera

Eucalyptus coccifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eucalyptus
Species:	E. coccifera
Binomial name
Eucalyptus coccifera Hook.f.

Eucalyptus coccifera, the Tasmanian snow gum or the Mount Wellington Peppermint, is a native tree of Tasmania.^[1]

It grows as a shrub on margins of the alpine Central Highland Tasmania.^[2]

It grows in subalpine dolerite areas. The species hybridizes with Eucalyptus amygdalina and E. pauciflora.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.australiaplants.com/Eucalyptus_coccifera.htm give it the synonymic local name
2. ^ ^{a b} J. B. Kirkpatrick & Sue Backhouse (2004). Native trees of Tasmania (7th ed.). Sandy Bay, Tasmania: Pandani Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0-646-43088-1. 

External links

• Photograph of Eucalyptus coccifera in flower
• http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/cold-climate/eucalypts-cold-climates.html