Eucalyptus marginata Sm.

Tree to 40 m; trunk up to 2 m diam. Bark red-brown or brown, ageing to grey. Juvenile leaves ovate, dark green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, sometimes falcate, uncinate or acuminate; lamina 8–13 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, dark green, shining, discolorous; lateral veins just visible, at 40°–60°; intramarginal vein mostly up to 1 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 12–16 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle terete or angled, 10–20 mm long; pedicels 5–13 mm long. Buds ±cylindrical; operculum narrowly conical, rostrate, 5–9 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or campanulate, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits globular or ovoid, 9–16 mm long, 9–15 mm wide; disc descending obliquely or sometimes level; valves 3, included or level. Seeds ribbed, brown-black.

Usually forming forest or woodland on gravelly soils, but sometimes also on sands or loams; at elevations from 100-300 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.