Tree to 15 m tall, sometimes small, rounded and compact. Bark rough and fibrous throughout, pale brown. Juvenile leaves alternate, linear, short-stalked, evenly coloured. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate; blade 6-13 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, blue-green, dull. Leaf stalk cylindrical, 7-12 mm long. Flowers white, in 7s, common stalk cylindrical, 5-7 mm long, individual flower stalks 2-3 mm long; Mar-Apr. Fruits 2-5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, absent through summer.
Grows naturally on slopes and ridges in poor soils mainly on the New England Range in the N Tablelands of NSW. Versatile densely foliaged tree grown under a wide range of conditions.
NSW.
Rough bark throughout; narrow blue-green leaves with peppermint smell when crushed; small buds and fruits.
ACT: Canberra (Australian War Memorial, ptd by Queen Elizabeth II 12 Feb 1954 to mark the beginning of the Remembrance Driveway to Sydney; Canadian High Commission, ptd Heather Henderson 1 July 1979 to commemorate her father, Sir Robert Menzies, former Prime Minister of Australia); Yarralumla (Solander Pl.).
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.