Eucalyptus macrorhyncha

Eucalyptus macrorhyncha F.Muell. ex Benth. (Myrtaceae), the red stringybark, is a medium to tall evergreen tree of the dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia, occurring in New South Wales, Victoria, and parts of South Australia, and reaching 15–35 m tall. The persistent bark is reddish-brown, deeply furrowed, and characteristically fibrous, peeling in long stringy strips from the trunk and larger branches. Juvenile leaves are opposite for several pairs, broadly ovate, and discolorous; adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate to falcate, 8–14 cm long, glossy dark green and dotted with translucent oil glands. Inflorescences are axillary umbels of 7–11 buds with conical opercula; flowers are creamy white and produced from summer to autumn. Fruits are short-pedicelled, hemispherical to almost globose woody capsules 6–10 mm wide with a flat or slightly raised disc and three or four enclosed valves. The species is a major source of rutin from leaf tissue.