Corymbia collina, commonly known as silver-leaved bloodwood,[1] is a species of tree that is endemic to Western Australia. It has thin patchy rough bark on some or all of the trunk, smooth white to pale grey bark above, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit.
Corymbia collina typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, patchy, fibrous to flaky, tessellated bark on part or all of the trunk, smooth white or cream-coloured to pale grey bark above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have heart-shaped to egg-shaped leaves long and wide. Adult leaves are glossy green, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle long, each branch of the peduncle with seven buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a rounded to bluntly conical operculum. Flowering occurs from April to June and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a woody, barrel-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.[2] [3]
The name Eucalyptus collina first appeared in the Western Mail newspaper on 2 June 1906 in an article written by William Vincent Fitzgerald.[4] The first formal description of the species was published in 1923 by Joseph Maiden in his book, A Critical Revision of the genus Eucalyptus, from an unpublished description by Fitzgerald.[5] [6] In 1995, Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson changed the name to Corymbia collina.[7]
The silver-leaved bloodwood grows on rocky ranges, tablelands and slopes in the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges and Bungle Bungle Range areas in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.