Tree to 15 m or so tall. Bark yellow to pale grey, smooth throughout. Juvenile leaves linear. Adult leaves linear, blade 5-10 cm long, less than 1 cm wide, veins obscure, surface often rough with oil dots. Leaf stalk mostly 4-7 mm long. Flowers creamy, in large clusters of 5-15, common stalk 3-8 mm long, individual flower stalks 1-3 mm long; Dec-Mar. Fruit mostly 5-8 mm long and wide.
Grows naturally on forested slopes.
C and SE Tas.
Smooth bark throughout; leaves narrow, linear, veinless, often rough with oil dots and with a strong peppermint smell when crushed. Other peppermints occasionally cultivated include: E. radiata DC., Narrow-leaved Peppermint, which has rough bark throughout but also more than 7 buds in a cluster; and E. elata Dehnh., River Peppermint, which has bark peeling in ribbons at the base and may have to 30 or more buds
ACT: Red Hill (Beagle St). TAS: Hobart (Summerleas Rd).
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.