Eucalyptus blakelyi

Eucalyptus blakelyi, Blakely's red gum, is a medium-sized tree in the Myrtaceae endemic to inland eastern Australia, common across the western slopes and tablelands of New South Wales and adjacent Queensland and Victoria. It typically reaches 15-20 m tall with a straight trunk and an open, spreading crown. The bark is smooth, mottled, and deciduous in irregular patches, shedding to expose fresh surfaces of cream, grey, and pale orange tones over a yellowish underbark. Adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate to falcate, 8-20 cm long, glossy green on both surfaces and pendulous on long petioles. White flowers are produced from spring to early summer in axillary umbels of 7-11 buds with conical opercula; the resulting hemispherical fruits are 3-7 mm wide with strongly exserted valves. The species is an important component of grassy box woodlands, often forming associations with E. melliodora and E. albens.