Eucalyptus caleyi Maiden

Tree to 27 m high. Bark rough throughout, dark grey to black. Juvenile leaves ovate to orbicular, sometimes emarginate, glaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acute to uncinate; lamina 5–10 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, glaucous, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole 14–23 mm long. Peduncle terete, 12–25 mm long; pedicels terete, 5–10 mm long. Buds clavate to fusiform, glaucous; operculum conical, usually narrower than hypanthium, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits ovoid to subpyriform, glaucous, 6–10 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 3 or 4, included. Seeds smooth. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]

Widespread and locally abundant, in grassy woodland on drier, shallower soils of moderate fertility. Stony ridges and hillsides on sandstone, traprock or granite soils; at elevations from 160-1,000 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.