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Smooth mottled bark in white, grey and blue, shedding in irregular plates, often with a short rough collar at the base. Buds have a long horn shaped cap, which is the reliable identifying feature. Leaves are narrow and dull green. White flowers through winter and spring.
Associated with the Cumberland Plain and shale soils, so most common through Blacktown, the Hills District and western parts of Ryde. Remnant specimens are often part of the Cumberland Plain Woodland ecological community.
Straightforward as tree work, complicated as a compliance question. Remnant Forest Red Gums on the Cumberland Plain regularly sit inside Cumberland Plain Woodland mapping, which pushes the approval pathway from a tree permit into biodiversity assessment territory. Always check the mapping before quoting a Blacktown or Hills removal.
No. Blacktown does not publish an exempt species list at all. Any tree over 3m in height or with a trunk over 200mm at one metre above ground needs a permit, assessed on its own merits.
It is a critically endangered ecological community across western Sydney. If your tree forms part of a remnant, ordinary tree permit exemptions generally do not apply and a biodiversity pathway may be triggered.
