Corymbia citriodora (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson

Tree 25–40 m, occasionally to 50 m. Bark white, powdery, sometimes pink, red or blue-grey. Juvenile leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, sometimes peltate, sometimes setose, on petiole and lamina. Adult leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, strongly lemon-scented when crushed; lamina 8–16 cm long, 0.5–2 cm wide; lateral veins just visible, at 35°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 13–20 mm long. Peduncle terete, 3–7 mm long; pedicels 1–6 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, apiculate, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 5–6 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits ovoid or urceolate, 7–15 mm long, 7–11 mm wide, often warty.

Usually found in heavy soils, but also succeeding on deep sandy loams in coastal regions.

A sweet manna-like gum on the leaves is eaten. Caution: Eucalyptus oil is poisonous.

Can be grown by seedlings.