Eucalyptus acmenoides

Eucalyptus acmenoides, the white mahogany, is a large evergreen tree in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) that grows to 50 meters or more in tall wet forest, reaching only about half that height on drier sites. The bark is fibrous, finely furrowed, and pale grey to white, persisting to the small branches. Juvenile leaves are egg-shaped to broadly lanceolate, glossy green and up to 120 millimeters long by 30 millimeters wide. Adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate, distinctly bicoloured with the upper surface glossy dark green and the lower surface much paler, 80 to 120 millimeters long and 15 to 25 millimeters wide on petioles 8 to 18 millimeters long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven to eleven on an angular peduncle 6 to 15 millimeters long; each bud is oval to spindle-shaped, 5 to 7 millimeters long, and opens to white flowers. The fruit is a woody globose to hemispherical capsule 4 to 8 millimeters across. The species occurs in wet sclerophyll forest from the Atherton Tableland in Queensland south to Port Jackson in New South Wales.