Eucalyptus leucoxylon

Mallee or tree to 25 m tall; bark at base usually coarse, loose, fibrous, with most of trunk or stems smooth, yellowish. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for many pairs sometimes with opposing leaf bases connate, ovate to broadly lanceolate, to 10 cm long, 7 cm wide, blue-green, green or glaucous; adult leaves petiolate, lanceolate, 12–20 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide, concolorous, slightly glossy, green; intramarginal vein remote from edge; reticulation moderate to dense, often obscure; with numerous, island and intersectional oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1.1 cm long, 3-flowered; buds pedicellate, ovoid or globular, to 1.5 cm long, 0.8 cm diam., no scar (2 opercula intact); operculum conical or beaked; stamens inflexed with outer staminodes; anthers adnate, cuboid; ovules in 4, 6 or 8 vertical rows; flowers white or pink. Fruit pedicellate, truncate-globose; staminal ring broad, deciduous; disc descending; valves 4–6, below rim; seed brown, irregularly ovoid and slightly flattened, surface shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral.