Shrub 3-4 m tall. Bark pale brown to grey over salmon pink to copper. Branchlets with glandular pith. Juvenile leaves lanceolate. Adult leaves lanceolate; blade 6-8 cm long, mostly 1-2 cm wide, green and glossy. Leaf stalk flattened, 0.5-1 cm long. Flowers in 7s, scar present, buds 3-4 cm long, common stalk flattened, straight or curved down, 1.5-2.5 cm long, individual stalks mostly 0.5-1 cm long. Fruits 8-10 mm long, 7-9 mm wide, valves 4.

Grows naturally on shrubland and plains of SW WA. Grown along highways in NW Vic.

WA.

Shrub; long-capped flower buds.

Source: Spencer, R.; Rule, K. (2002). Eucalyptus. In: Spencer, R.. 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.