Mallee or tree to 6-8 m tall. Bark grey to pinkish brown. Juvenile leaves ovate. Adult leaves round, green, glossy. Leaf stalk cylindrical, to 1 cm long. Flowers cream to pale green in 7s, common stalk flattened, curved, up to 4 cm long, individual stalks 3-4 mm long; spring and summer. Fruits with several ribs.
Grows naturally on clay soils mostly along the coast from Albany to Esperance.
Cultivated as a street tree in Melbourne and elsewhere.
WA.
Leaves roundish; fruits ribbed and with valves protruding, unlike the similar E. nutans which has valves hardly exserted.
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.