Tree to mostly 35 m tall. Bark black, deeply furrowed and hard on trunk and major branches, smooth and white above. Juvenile leaves alternate, stalked. Adult leaves lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, colour different on each surface. Leaf stalk cylindrical,1-2 cm long. Flowers white, cream, pink or red, common stalk 0.5-2 cm long; May-Oct. Fruits hemispherical to urn-shaped, valves 5 or 6, included.
Vic, NSW, Qld.
Distinguished from its close relatives, E. melliodora and E. leucoxylon, by its ironbark, and from other ironbarks by having flowers in 7(-11)s. E. tricarpa has flowers and fruits in 3s.
ACT: Yarralumla (Government House, ptd Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh 8 May 1988, Duke and Duchess of Kent 8 June 1988, King Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain 17 June 1988). VIC: Beechworth (Black Springs Bakery); Chiltern (State Forest); Maldon (School Cottage, High St).
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.