Tree to 30 m tall. Bark fibrous at the base, upper branches smooth, yellowish white. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate to elliptic, stalked. Adult leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate; blade mostly 7-14 cm long, mostly 1-2 cm wide, grey-green. Leaf stalk cylindrical or slightly flattened, 1-1.5 cm long. Flowers creamy white (occasionally pinkish), in 7s, often in grouped clusters towards the tips of the branchlets, the common stalk cylindrical or 4-sided, 4-11mm long, individual stalks 2-9 mm long; Oct-Feb. Fruits 4-7 mm long and wide.
Grows in a range of habitats from woodland and open forest to hillsides, dry areas and near watercourses.
Vic, ACT, NSW, Qld.
Fibrous bark high up trunk; intramarginal leaf veins deepset; dark ring (from stamens) concealing disk on fruit; flowers mostly axillary, in clusters gathered towards the tips of branchlets.
ACT: Deakin (Adelaide Ave). VIC: Buchan (Caves); Melbourne (Royal Bot. Gds, Observatory Gate).
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.