Eucalyptus viminalis

Tree very variable in habit and size, to 50 m tall (in Victoria); bark smooth over whole trunk, or with thick stocking of rough bark consistently to c. 2–6 m above base, or trunk wholly rough-barked; bark of upper trunk and of branches shedding in conspicuous long ribbons that are held in crown and branch axils; smooth bark grey, white or yellowish. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for many pairs, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, to 15 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 12–20 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green; reticulation dense, with numerous, mostly island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 0.8 cm long, 3- or 7-flowered; buds shortly pedicellate, fusiform or ovoid, to 1 cm long, 0.5 cm diam., scar present; operculum conical; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, cuneate; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit shortly pedicellate, cupular to hemispherical, to 0.8 cm long, 0.9 cm diam.; disc slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted; seed brown to blackish, flattened-ellipsoid, reticulate, lacunose, hilum ventral.