Eucalyptus brassiana S.T.Blake

Tree to 20 m. Bark rough, thick, hard, dark grey to c. 2 m, then smooth and grey, cream-yellow or blue-grey above. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, thin; lamina 12–18 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, green; lateral veins at 30°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole channelled or slightly flattened, 12–22 mm long. Umbels 3–7-flowered; peduncle slightly angular, 10–20 mm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Buds conical; operculum conical, 7–10 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 3–4 mm long, 5–7 mm wide. Fruits ovoid to subglobular, 6–14 mm long, 6–12 mm wide; disc very broad, ascending steeply; valves 4 or 5, strongly exserted. Seeds brown-black.

Found on a range of sites from rocky slopes over undulating country to seasonally inundated flats and depressions; at elevations up to 560 metres. In cultivation it grows well on the margin of rice fields.

Can be grown by seedlings.