Eucalyptus zygophylla.
Eucalyptus G. Eu well + calyptos covered refering to cap covering statements in bud. Zygo, yoke or crossbar, phylla, leaf.
Common name: Broome Bloodwood.
Aboriginal name: Jugudany.
Uses: Bark carved for plates
Seeds and gall edible.
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Broome Bloodwood, Jugudany.
EUCALYPTUS ZYGOPHYLLA.
~Edible seed
~Edible gall (where an insect lays eggs inside the wood and a lump containing then insect develops).
~Carve inner bark for plates.
~The hard fruit (gumnuts) can be made into a necklace.
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eucalyptus (Crebio) zygophylla blakely Broome blooodwood
tree to 6m; bark rough and persistent; mature leaves opposite, sessile, dull green, discolorous, stem-clasping, oblong, to lanceolate, moderately thick, coriaaceos, smooth and quite glabrous, venation very fine and almost transverse; flower white, lager,in lateral umbel ,or short terminal corymbose panicles; fruits, lager, in sessile, broadly urceolate to globose, thick, woody.
In pindan in the broome area. Yawuru name = jugdany. Often contains sugarbag (bush honey). The type locality for this species is broome. Superficially similar to eucalyptus setosa but differing in being strictly glabrous, in the totally different venation, and in the different shape fruits. Good examples can be seen growing in the Japanese and town cemeteries.
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