Tree to 20-30 m tall. Bark grey, more or less fibrous throughout. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate, stalked. Adult leaves lanceolate, blade mostly 10-15 cm long,1.5-2.5 cm wide, light green, glossy. Leaf stalk flattened or grooved,1.5-2 cm long. Flowers cream, in 7s with common stalk mostly 1.5-2.5 cm long; individual flower stalks 0-4 mm long. Fruits often shallowly ribbed, mostly 1.5-2 cm long, 14-17 mm wide.

Grows naturally in alkaline soils of coast and woodland from Perth to Busselton.

Quite commonly cultivated and often found in school grounds.

WA.

Bark fibrous; flowers in stalked, 7-flowered clusters, individual flowers stalkless; fruits large.

VIC: Point Leo,Mornington Peninsula.

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.