Eucalyptus racemosa

Eucalyptus racemosa, the snappy gum or narrow-leaved scribbly gum, is a small to medium-sized tree in the family Myrtaceae endemic to eastern Australia. It reaches 15-20 m in height and forms a lignotuber that permits regeneration after fire or disturbance. The trunk is clothed in smooth, mottled white, yellow, grey or cream bark marked with the characteristic dark insect scribbles produced by larvae of the scribbly gum moth Ogmograptis racemosa. Adult leaves are alternate, lance-shaped to curved or egg-shaped, glossy green and similar in colour on both surfaces. Flower buds are borne in groups of seven to fifteen on an unbranched peduncle and open between July and September to white flowers, followed by cup-shaped, conical or hemispherical woody capsules. The species grows in woodlands and dry sclerophyll forest on poor sandstone soils in mid to high rainfall areas from southern New South Wales to south-east Queensland.