Shrub or, more often, tree to mostly 20 m tall. Bark smooth throughout, white or grey, sometimes greenish yellow and purple. Juvenile leaves opposite, stalkless, more or less round, margins wavy-toothed, persisting on mature trees. Adult leaves in upper parts, alternate, lanceolate, lamina entire, mostly 8-12 cm long, 2-3.5 cm wide, grey-green or waxy-white, same colour on both sides, dull. Leaf stalk flattened,1.5-2 cm long. Flowers creamy white, in clusters of 3, the common stalk flattened, 5-8 mm long, individual flowers without stalks; Aug-Sept. Fruits waxy-white, smooth or 2-ribbed,10-13 mm long and wide, round to cylindrical.
Grows naturally in damp montane areas of wet sclerophyll forest in SE Tas.
SE Tas.
A larger tree with larger fruits than Eucalyptus perriniana and E. pulverulenta.
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.
Updated by: Val Stajsic, June 2018