Eucalyptus deanei Maiden

Tree to 65 m. Bark smooth, white and blue-grey throughout, or sometimes with a small amount of old flaky or scaly bark at base. Juvenile leaves ovate to suborbicular. Adult leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate; lamina 8–12.5 cm long, 1.7–3.5 cm wide; lateral veins faint, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole 15–20 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle angular or flattened, 7–14 mm long; pedicels angular, 1–5 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, apiculate, 1–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or campanulate, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits cylindrical or campanulate, 4–6 mm long and wide; disc level or descending; valves 3 or 4, level or exserted, often curved outwards.

Essentially a tree of the closed wet sclerophyll forest mixed with several of the better eucalypts, also occurring on upper slopes and tablelands; at elevations from 30-1,000 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.