Tree to mostly 10 m or so tall. Bark rough, grey on lower half of trunk, smooth and grey or brown above. Juvenile leaves opposite, stalkless, stem-clasping, more or less round, wavy-toothed, waxy-white and differing in colour on upper and lower surface. Adult leaves opposite, waxy blue-grey, wavy-toothed, broadly ovate, 3.5-6.5 cm long, 3-5.5 cm wide, paler on one surface, dull. Flowers creamy white, in waxy clusters of 7-11 with common stalk 5-8 mm long and individual stalks 2-4 mm long; (July-)Sept-Oct. Fruits 3-4 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, valves 3-4.
A tree of very restricted distribution in small populations on swampy or moist ground in the valley of the Acheron River NE of Melbourne.
Vic (native and naturalised).
Bark rough; leaves opposite, wavy-toothed, the adult leaves with surfaces different shades of green.
ACT: Canberra (Australian National University, Faculty of Science).VIC: Balwyn (Maranoa Gds); Melbourne (Royal Bot. Gds, Australian Lawn).
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