Brisbane box

Lophostemon confertus, commonly known as brush box, Queensland box or vinegartree, is a large evergreen tree in the family Myrtaceae native to the subtropical rainforests and rainforest margins of eastern Australia, from northern New South Wales through coastal Queensland, where it is a long-lived component of warm-temperate and subtropical forest and is also widely planted as a street and shade tree across the warm temperate world. Mature trees typically reach 15 to 30 metres in height, occasionally to 45 metres, with a straight trunk to a metre or more in diameter and a dense, dark green crown. The trunk has distinctive smooth pinkish-brown to grey bark on the upper trunk and branches that sheds in flakes to reveal fresh cream or fawn underbark, while the lower trunk often retains rough, fissured persistent bark. The leaves are alternate but clustered toward the branch tips in apparent whorls of four to five, narrowly elliptic to obovate, 7 to 17 centimetres long and 2 to 4 centimetres wide, deep glossy green above and paler beneath. White flowers 1.5 to 2 centimetres across with five petals and many feathery filaments are borne in axillary cymes of three to seven blossoms in early summer, followed by woody bell-shaped capsules 7 to 10 millimetres long.