Eucalyptus amygdalina

Eucalyptus amygdalina, commonly known as black peppermint, is a medium-sized to tall evergreen tree in the Myrtaceae endemic to Tasmania, where it dominates dry sclerophyll forests on poor sandy and gravelly soils from the coast to about 800 metres elevation. Trees grow 15 to 40 metres tall with a straight trunk and a moderately spreading crown; the bark is rough and fibrous, dark grey to almost black on the lower trunk and shedding in long ribbons from the upper branches to reveal a smoother white to greyish-yellow surface. Juvenile leaves are opposite, sessile and narrowly lanceolate, while adult leaves are alternate, long-petiolate, narrow-lanceolate to almost linear, 5 to 13 centimetres long and 0.5 to 1.5 centimetres wide, dull green and strongly aromatic with a peppermint scent on crushing. Creamy white flowers are borne in axillary umbels of seven to fifteen flowers on slender flattened peduncles; the buds are club-shaped with a conical or rounded operculum. The fruit is a small hemispherical to subglobose woody capsule 4 to 7 millimetres in diameter with included valves.