Eucalyptus longifolia
LinkTree to 35 m tall; bark rough, persistent to branches, fibrous, flaky, grey. Juvenile leaves petiolate, opposite for a few pairs then alternate, ovate to broadly lanceolate, to 20 cm long, 9 cm wide, slightly discolorous, dull, green to grey-green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, falcate to lanceolate, 9–25 cm long, 0.8–3.5 cm wide, concolorous, dull, green to grey-green; reticulation moderate to dense, with island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 3.4 cm long, usually pendulous, 3-flowered; buds pedicellate, ovoid to diamond-shaped, to 2.7 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, scar present; operculum conical; stamens inflexed; anthers versatile, dorsifixed, oblong; ovules in 8 or more vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, cup-shaped or cylindrical, to 1.5 cm long, 1.6 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 3 or 4, rim level or enclosed; seed yellow to brownish black, pyramidial, margins toothed, hilum terminal. Flowers Jun.–Nov.
VVP, GipP, EGL. Native to the south coast of New South Wales, extending to the border with Victoria, but apparently not naturally occurring in Victoria.
Occasionally recorded spreading from planted trees.
Spinning
