Eucalyptus nicholii Maiden & Blakely

Tree to 15 m. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, yellow-brown to grey-brown. Juvenile leaves alternate, crowded, shortly petiolate, linear, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate acuminate; lamina 6–13 cm long, 0.5–1 cm wide, slightly blue-green to grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 7–12 mm long. Peduncle terete, 5–7 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Buds ovoid or fusiform; operculum conical, 1–3 mm long, c. 2 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical to subglobular, 2–3 mm long, c. 2 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to obconical, 2–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; disc level; valves slightly exserted.

Grows on well-drained slopes and ridges in poor soilsas scattered trees and in woodland.

Can be grown by seedlings.