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GROUP VI. E. COCCIFERA. E. CORDATA. 
GROUP VI. 
Species adapted to localities where there are heavy falls of snow, where severe 
and prolonged frosts occur from late autumn to middle spring, and where the 
summer season is variable. Estimated range in mean annual temperature for 
successful cultivation, 48 to 53 F. Probable limit of vigorous resistance to cold 
for seedlings and young saplings, between 8° F. and 14° F.; for a few species 
lower than 8° F. 
E. coccifera. E. Muelleri. (syn. Johnstoni). 
E. cordata. E. unialata. 
E. Gunnii. E. urnigera. 
65. E. COCCIFERA Hooker f. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
This is a very distinct species. It is restricted in natural habitat to the moun¬ 
tains of Tasmania at altitudes of about 4,000ft. On the track up Mount 
Wellington near Hobart it appears in vigorous shrubby form after all other 
eucalypts have been left behind. It sheds its dead bark and presents a white or 
grey surface on stem and branches. The leaves in the juvenile stage are round or 
oval and sessile; in the adult tree stage stalked, about 3in. long, and of same dull 
or glaucous green on both surfaces. Umbel 3 to 6-flowered; stalk I&in., stalklets 
extremely short or absent; calyx tube or unripe seed-cup warty and rough; lid of 
bud low; anthers with broad, united, and divergent openings. Ripe seed-cup 
sessile, over I^in. wide; rim broad, smooth, and slightly convex; orifice and valves in 
centre of the disk-like rim and very small. Mature wood pale, durability in ground 
not recorded. 
CULTIVATION IIS NEW ZEALAND. 
E. coccifera can scarcely take rank as a timber yielder, its height perhaps 
never exceeding 30ft. But its capacity to endure very low temperatuies entitles it 
to a welcome place in our list of ornamental and wind-resistant plants foi fiosty 
uplands. Associated there with larch and other especially hardy trees, it can help 
to give the farmer shelter, fuel, and rough stakes for the fences. \ igorous speci¬ 
mens may be seen in the State forests at Waiotapu, on the upper Canterbury 
Plains, and in Otago and Southland. Seed may easily be obtained from such 
specimens. 
66. E. CORDATA Labillardiere. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
Native home of the species southern uplands of Tasmania Tree small, 
probably never over 50ft. in height. Dead bark thin, deciduous, fjeaves sessile, 
heart-shaped, slightly crenulate or indented at the edges. Umbel ’ 
stalk about %in., stalklets very short or absent; lid of bud a low cap with centi 
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