Mountain white gum

Eucalyptus dalrympleana, the mountain gum or broad-leaved kindlingbark, is a tall, graceful evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae native to the cooler montane and tableland regions of southeastern Australia, typically reaching 20-40 m in height with a long, straight trunk and a relatively open, spreading crown. The bark is smooth throughout, shedding in long ribbons to reveal a clean white to pale grey or pinkish trunk that is often dappled cream and salmon-pink in early summer; older bark may persist briefly as a short rough stocking at the base. Juvenile leaves are opposite for many pairs, sessile to shortly stalked, orbicular to broadly ovate, glaucous and 3-7 cm wide. Adult leaves are alternate, narrowly lanceolate to falcate, 9-20 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, slightly glossy green to dull green on both surfaces with prominent oil glands and an obliquely transverse network of veins; petioles are 1.5-3 cm long. Inflorescences are axillary, three-flowered umbellasters with short peduncles; buds are ovoid to fusiform with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowers are white with numerous stamens. Fruits are hemispherical to broadly conical capsules 4-7 mm in diameter with three or four valves near rim level.