Eucalyptus cypellocarpa

Eucalyptus cypellocarpa, the mountain grey gum or monkey gum, is a tall forest tree in the family Myrtaceae endemic to south-eastern Australia. Mature trees commonly reach 50-65 m, with a long, clean bole and smooth white to bluish-grey bark that sheds in long ribbons, often retaining a short stocking of rough bark at the base. Juvenile growth has square stems and opposite, sessile, heart-shaped to egg-shaped leaves; adult leaves are alternate, lance-shaped to curved, glossy green and up to about 305 mm long. Flower buds are arranged in groups of seven on a slender peduncle, the bud cup-shaped with a conical to beaked operculum. White flowers open from January to June and again from October to November, followed by woody, cylindrical to barrel-shaped capsules 5-10 mm across. The species grows in wet sclerophyll forests on gullies and mid-altitude hillsides in cool to warm, humid country between Victoria and southern New South Wales.