Eucalyptus platypus Hook.

Moort

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: 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.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Rosanae
order      Myrtales
family       Myrtaceae
genus        Eucalyptus L'Hér.