Widely planted tree to 30 m or so tall. Bark smooth,mottled yellow, grey and/or bluegrey. Juvenile leaves alternate, orbicular, stalked. Adult leaves lanceolate; blade 11-15 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide, dark, differently shaded on each face. Leaf stalk 'square' in section, mostly 1.5-2 cm long. Flowers creamy white, in clusters of 7-11; Jan-Mar. Fruit 9-16 mm long 6-10 mm wide, barrel-shaped, ribbed when mature.
Grows naturally in open forest in the southern Flinders Ranges, near Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula and on Kangaroo Island. Grown experimentally as a dry country tree in the Adelaide Bot. Garden in the late 1860s. Now widely planted both ornamentally and as a farm or wayside tree, especially in the Western District of Vic.
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Smooth bark often mottled yellow; leaves different colours on opposite faces; fruits barrel-shaped, elongate, ribbed at least when aged.
VIC: Balwyn (Maranoa Gds, entrance); Bendigo (White Hills Bot. Gds); Burnley (College grounds); Fairfield (Hospital, several large old trees); Horsham (plantation at approach to Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Wail, ptd 1912).
Source: (2002). Eucalyptus. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
, Bushy Sugar Gum, is a small bushy tree sometimes called the Kangaroo Island and Eyre Peninsula variant, as this is where it occurs naturally. It will grow true from seed. Specimens vic: Geelong Hwy (many planted as roadside trees).