Eucalyptus melliodora

Eucalyptus melliodora is a medium to large evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family growing 15-30 m tall with a long straight trunk and an open, irregular, spreading crown. Bark on the lower trunk is persistent, fibrous to subfibrous, yellow-brown to brownish-grey and shallowly fissured ('box bark'), giving way on the upper branches to smooth pale yellowish-grey to creamy white bark that is shed in irregular ribbons or flakes. Juvenile leaves are opposite, sessile to shortly petiolate, ovate to broadly lanceolate, glaucous and 2-7 cm long; adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate to falcate, 6-14 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, dull grey-green to slightly glaucous on both surfaces with conspicuous oil glands visible against the light. Inflorescences are axillary umbels of seven (rarely up to eleven) buds borne on slender peduncles. Buds are ovoid to fusiform, 4-6 mm long, with a small conical operculum slightly shorter than the hypanthium. Flowers are creamy white, profusely produced, with numerous radiating stamens and intensely honey-fragrant. Fruits are small hemispherical to cup-shaped woody capsules 4-7 mm across with the disc deeply enclosed and three or four valves. Native to temperate woodlands of eastern Australia.